He studied music composition at Indiana University with Eugene O'Brien and Claude Baker and then earned his doctorate at Cornell with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra.
[15] He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony,[16] Yaddo,[17] Aaron Copland House,[18] Bogliasco Foundation,[19] the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center,[20] the Blue Mountain Center,[21] and the Hermitage Artist Retreat.
"[25] Recent major projects include a commission for a concert length work, A More Convenient Season, for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra with chorus and soloists commemorating the 50th anniversary of an explosion that killed four in a Baptist church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963.
[26] In 2015, Haber's first monographic album of chamber music, Torus, was released on Roven Records and distributed by Naxos to wide critical acclaim, hailed by New York's WQXR as "a snapshot of a soul in flux – moving from life to the afterlife, from Israel to New Orleans – a composer looking for a sound and finding something powerful along the way.
"[31] Haber was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of five classical musicians "2014 Faces To Watch,”[32] and chosen as one of the “30 composers under 40” by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Project 440.