Robert Eisenberg

Robert Eisenberg was born, raised, and lives in Toronto. Together with partners, he works to breathe new life into old buildings, collaborates with others to protect our environmental heritage, and toils away on his own as a writer. He is married with four children if, as he does, you include sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

He was inspired to write the novella, Tomas and the Gypsy Violin and to create Heartstrings Canada by the children of Sistema Toronto, a charity he founded in 2011. The close to 300 children living in vulnerable communities and enrolled in Sistema’s after-school program are the living proof of the transformative power of music. They achieve higher grades in school, get along better at home and with friends, and learn discipline and the joy of mutual achievement. Sistema helps children to escape the downward spiral of poverty and crime. There is simply no better apprenticeship for adulthood and citizenship.