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Yiddish
Summer 2008 opens on July 10 and 11 with world-class
concerts by two new bands created specially for the
project "The Other Europeans"; a klezmer octet directed
by Alan Bern, and a Roma sextet directed by cymbalom virtuoso Kalman
Balogh.
Yiddish Summer Weimar
08: July, 10th - August, 15 th
"The Other Europeans"
Michael
Alpert
(USA, voice/violin)
Kalman Balogh (Hungary, cimbalom)
Alan Bern
(USA/Germany, accordion/piano)
Kurt
Bjorling
(USA, clarinet/tsimbl)
Daniel
Blacksberg
(USA, trombone)
Paul Brody
(USA/Germany, trumpet)
Marin Bunea (Moldova, violine)
Efim Chorny (Moldova, voice/composition)
Bob Cohen
(Hungary, fiddle)
Matt
Darriau
(USA,
flute/Es-clarinet/saxofon)
Rosi Dasch
(Germany, voice/violin)
Christian
Dawid
(Germany, clarinet)
Sruli
Dresdner
(USA, voice/clarinet)
Antal
Fekete
(Hungary, kontra viola)
Zev
Feldman
(USA/Israel, dance/tsimbl)
Pesakh
Fizman
(USA, Yiddish)
Sue Foy
(Hungary, dance master)
Susan
Ghergus (Moldova, piano)
Dorothea
Greve
(Germany, Yiddish)
Florin
Kordoban
(Romania, dance master)
Gyula
Kozma
(Hungary, bass)
Tcha
Limberger
(Belgien, voice/violin)
Sanne
Möricke
(Germany, accordion)
Katharina
Müther
(Germany, voice/accordion)
Csaba Novak
(Hungary, bass)
Ferenc
Pribojszki
(Hungary, cimbalom)
Petar Ralchev (Bulgarien, accordion)
Stas Rayko
(Ukraine/Germany, violin)
Adrian Recean (France, clarinet)
Mark Rubin
(USA, bass/tuba)
Fabian
Schnedler
(Germany, voice)
Guy Schalom
(United Kingdom, percussion)
Andreas
Schmitges
(Germany, dance master)
Jake
Shulman-Ment
(USA, violin)
Adam Stinga (Moldova, trumpet)
Michael
Alpert
(USA, voice/violin)
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Kalman Balogh (Hungary, cimbalom)
 has
grown up with authentic folk music, but also studied
classical music. He graduated as cimbalom teacher from
the Liszt Academy, Budapest in 1980, studying under
Ferenc Gerencsér. In 1985 he was awarded the Hungarian
distinction of "Young Master of Folk Arts", and two
years later he won second prize in the Aladár Rácz
cimbalom-competition. He plays mostly authentic folk
music from Hungary and from the Balkans, though during
the last years he has played with jazz groups, rock
bands and a symphony orchestra, too. As an artist he has
performed with such Hungarian bands as Jánosi, Ökrös,
Téka, Méta, Muzsikás, Zsarátnok, Vízöntő, Vasmalom, the
Swedish Orient-Express, the Dutch Sultan and Ot Azoj,
the English Transglobal Underground, the American Peter
Ogi and the Joel Rubin Jewish Ensemble. He was musical
director of the "Magneten Gypsy Show" of Andre Heller
and also performed on a CD with the Budapest Festival
Orchestra playing Brahms' Hungarian Dances. In 1997, he
performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and
also with the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra.
http://www.balogh-kalman.fw.hu
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Alan Bern
(USA/Germany, accordion/piano)
 program
director of the Weimar Workshops and leader of BRAVE OLD
WORLD, Alan Bern is considered one of the finest
pianists, accordionists and composers in Jewish music
today. He has performed and recorded with the KLEZMER
CONSERVATORY BAND, the KLEZMATICS, Andy Statman, SHIRIM,
KAPELYE, Itzhak Perlman, Seymour Rexite, the SYMRNA
TRIO, PARIS-TO-KIEV, and many others. Bern is also
renowned as a teacher and workshop director, in which
capacities he works regularly at Klezkanada (Montreal),
Klezfest (London), Klezmer Wochen (Weimar) and
elsewhere. His compositions have received awards in the
USA, Europe and Israel. Bern also writes and directs
music for theatre and modern dance. In 2006, he earned a
doctorate degree in Music Composition at the
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.
A native of Bloomington, Indiana, he lived for many
years in Boston and Brooklyn and has been based in
Berlin since 1987.
www.braveoldworld.com |
www.myspace.com/alanbern
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Kurt
Bjorling
(USA, clarinet/tsimbl)
 clarinetist and musical director of the CHICAGO KLEZMER
ENSEMBLE, also performs on accordion, tsimbl, bass
clarinet and saxophone. Since 1992 he has been a member
of the internationally acclaimed quartet BRAVE OLD WORLD
and he has also toured and recorded with the KLEZMATICS,
with violinist Itzhak Perlman. Bjorling has composed two
pieces for orchestra and soloists: in December 1991 he
appeared as guest soloist with the Concordia Chamber
Symphony at New York's Lincoln Centre, performing a
"Suite of Yiddish Music", which was commissioned from
him for the occasion and in June 1998 his “Concertino on
Klezmer Music Themes” was performed by the Huntington
Symphony with members of the Cincinnati Klezmer Project.
Bjorling has taught music at the annual Yiddish Folk
Arts Program sponsored by the YIVO Institute and Living
Traditions, at the Multicultural Folk Arts Centre’s
klezmer music camp at Buffalo Gap, West Virginia, and at
numerous European festivals and workshops including the
annual Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, Poland and the
Jüdische Kulturtage in Berlin, Germany. Bjorling studied
clarinet with Lloyd Scott and Larry Combs. In addition
to his involvement with Yiddish music, he has been
active playing jazz, chamber music and various styles of
ethnic folk music, as well as arranging and performing
music for theatre.
www.muziker.org
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Daniel
Blacksberg
(USA, trombone)
 a native
of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, has become involved in
klezmer music only in the last few years. In that short
time, he has played with many of the field's top artists
such as Frank London, Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Hankus
Netsky, Adrienne Cooper, Alicia Svigals, Michael
Winograd, Alex Kontorovich, Daniel Kahn, Aaron Alexander
and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. He has appeared at the
Krakow Jewish Music Festival, at the Ashkenaz Festival
in Toronto and Klezmer Festival Fürth as well as many
concerts all across the US and Europe. He has taught at
both Klezkamp and Klezkanada.
Dan received his Bachelor of Music in jazz performance
from the New England Conservatory, where he completed
studies with Bob Brookmeyer, Joe Morris, Ran Blake, Joe
Maneri and Hankus Netsky. He remains deeply involved in
the world of jazz and creative improvised music and has
performed with Joe Morris, Joe Maneri, Gunther Schuller
and Anthony Braxton. He has been a member of the Danilo
Perez Big Band and is on the recent release The Panama
Suite.
www.danielblacksberg.com
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Paul Brody
(USA/Germany, trumpet)
is from
San Francisco and studied trumpet and composition at
Boston University and the New England Conservatory. His
band, Paul Brody's Sadawi, has its third CD on the
legendary Tzadik label. The latest recording 'For the
Moment' features, John Zorn, Frank London, and Michael
Alpert. Paul lives in Berlin and has worked with such
greats as Barry White, Wim Wenders, The Supremes, Blixa
Bargeld and The Einstürzende Neubauten, Theadore Bikel,
Sophie Solomon, Cora Frost, Die Geschwister Pfister, Ari
Benjamin Meyers and The Redux Orchestra, Carlos Bica,
Socalled, Anthony Coleman, Khupe, Michael Rodach, Frank
London, Harold Junke, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, The
Duke Elington Review (Broadway show), David Moss, Shirly
Bassy, Ed Schuller, Tony Buck, Gale Tufts, Rudi Mahal,
Katharina Talbach, Billy Bang, Bob Moses, David
Krackauer, and many more. He has been featured at many
major festivals including the Berlin Jazz Festival,
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Donauschingen Music
Festival, Minsk Jazz and Klezmer Festivals, Vienna
KlezMORE Festival, Paris La Musique Fest, Warsaw Jazz
Festival, Vilnius Yiddish Music Fest, the Prague Nine
Gates Festival and he has composed the music for various
film and theater projects. In addition to his solo
career, Paul composes and produces children's music for
the Oetinger Publishing house and WDR radio. His
children’s songs have been on the top 10 number one hits
at WDR radio and on a 'Favorite Songs' sampler put out
by EMI records.
www.paulbrody.net
www.myspace.com/paulbrodyskidsmusic
www.myspace.com/paulbrodysadawi
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Marin Bunea (Moldova, violine)
 was born
1969, in a small town at the north of Moldova, named
Donduseni. His father and grandparents were fiddlers.
Marin plays violin from 6 years old and graduated from
Chisinau conservatory in 1997, in the class of Valeriu
Hancu. He played in several bands and performed in many
countries, such as Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey,
Italy, Russia and the Ukraine. His repertoire includes
traditional Romanian music, fiddler's music, classical
music and many traditional pieces of different nations.
At the moment Marin plays in one of the most famous
traditional restaurants from Chisinau, "La Taifas".
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wj_1lOsR5CM
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Efim Chorny
(Moldova, voice/composition)
 is
one of the most important protagonists in the revival of
Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. Efim's characteristics
of a charismatic presence, exceptional voice, great
humour and temperament make him a successor of the great
tradition of Yiddish Song; a tradition in which he lives
and which he personifies. More than 30 CDs of Klezmer
groups contain a number of his songs. These songs are
singing (in repertoire) by world-known Jewish performers,
such as Adrienne Cooper, Shura Lipovsky and others.
Efim is a leader of "Theatre of Jewish Song" (Kishinev)
and soloists of "Klezmer Alliance" (German-Moldova-England).
Together with "Klezmer Alliance" he performed more than
150 concerts in Europe.
www.myspace.com/klezmeralliance
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Bob Cohen
(Hungary, fiddle)
 Born in
New York and now living in Budapest, Bob began field
research in 1988 among Roma in Transylvania, discovering
that many older Roma band leaders maintained a
repertoire of Jewish music learned from having played
with Jewish musicians at weddings, and subsequently
collected Yiddish traditions in Hungary, Transylvania,
and Moldavia from elderly Jews and from Roma who had
associated with them. Subsequently Bob apprenticed to
several Roma fiddlers, including Ference Arus of Méra,
Marton Kordoban of Palatka, and Gheorghe-Ioannei Covaci
of Ieud to learn the art of Transylvanian fiddle. He is
a founding member of “Di Naye Kapelye”.
www.dinayekapelye.com
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Matt
Darriau
(USA,
flute/Es-clarinet/saxofon)
 saxophonist,
clarinetist, ethnic-woodwind specialist and composer has
made several innovative contributions to the New York
music scene. His background in the fertile and eclectic
milieu of the New England Conservatory of Music’s Third
Stream Program in the early 80’s, and the continued
practice of Balkan, Klezmer and Celtic folk idioms, have
helped shape his esthetic and passion for creating new
and unusual music. He is active as composer-musician in
the Klezmatics, Paradox Trio (His veteran Balkan - Jazz
fusion group, 3 CD's on the Knitting Factory label and
the most recent CD, GAMBIT, on the ENJA label), Ballin’
The Jack (avant-swing septet - 2 CD’s on KF records),
Disastro Totale (with Yuri Lemeshev of Gogol Bordello),
Roberto Rodriguez Septet (Tzadik), FRANK LONDON’S
Klezmer Brass Allstars (Piranah) and his recently formed
Yusef Lateef project and the Recycled Waltz Orchestra.
He has been awarded grants and commissions from the NEA,
Chamber Music America (2005) and is a regular in New
York’s downtown jazz scene.
www.myspace.com/mattdarriau
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Rosi Dasch
(Germany, voice/violin)
 born 1963
in Marl, studied violin at the Musikhochschule Köln and
voice privately. Her intensive engagement with Jewish
culture and music led to her founding the ensembles
PAYKELE in 1987 and LEWONE in 1996. She participated in
seminars led by Giora Feidman and met there her duo
partner , Katharina Müther (DUO WAJLU), with whom she
gives seminars. Roswitha Dasch has worked closely with
numerous Jewish folk music ensembles for many years. In
1998 she presented a concert of songs and texts from the
Vilna Ghetto in the German Parliament. She has created
an exhibition devoted to this topic and made a
documentary film „Sage nie, du gehst den letzten Weg“
with filmmaker Sabine Friedrichs.
www.wajlu.de |
www.roswitha-dasch.com
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Christian
Dawid
(Germany, clarinet)
 studied
Western classical music, went on to diverse stylistic
experiences from a capella pop to alpine brass music to
finally specialize in Yiddish instrumental music.
Counting as one of today's leading klezmer clarinetists,
he has performed extensively throughout Eastern and
Western Europe and North America. He has worked with
numerous international artists, among them Boban
Markovic, Frank London, Brave Old World, Socalled,
Theodore Bikel, Lorin Sklamberg, Smyrna Trio,
Strauss/Warschauer Duo, Shura Lipovsky and DJ Yuriy
Gurzhy. He has been teaching at festivals and academies
from Canada to Russia to Japan, such as Yiddish Summer
Weimar, KlezKanada, Klezfest St Petersburg, Klezmer
Paris, Klezkamp, Klezfest London or the Jewish Culture
Festival in Cracow. His latest recordings include two
highly acclaimed CDs, Budowitz: "Live" and Paul Brody's
Sadawi: "For the Moment". Dawid also plays for Khupe and
his newest, widely noticed project, the Ukrainian
hipster family brass band, Konsonans Retro. In between,
he lives in Berlin.
www.konsonans.com |
www.khupe.de
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Sruli
Dresdner
(USA, voice/clarinet)
 is
a klezmer musician who specializes in traditional
Hasidic niggunim. Sruli was raised in a Hasidic
environment where he learned hundreds of nigunnim from
his family and community. Sruli has shared his love for
traditional Hasidic melodies all over the world
including KlezKanada, the Krakow Jewish Festival and
Klezmer Wochen Weimar.
www.sruliandlisa.com
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Antal
Fekete
(Hungary, kontra viola)
Antal
“Puma” began playing the three stringed Transylvanian
kontra viola in 1973, and has become one of the most
respected musicians in Hungarian folk music,
accompanying the Palatka band on many occasions, as well
as releasing CD recordings of their music. He is a
member of “Di Naye Kapelye”.
www.dinayekapelye.com
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Zev
Feldman
(USA/Israel, dance/tsimbl)
 is
a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish
music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer, tsimbl.
During the mid-1970s he and Andy Statman studied with
Dave Tarras and were two of the creators of the klezmer
revival; at that time Feldman reintroduced the dulcimer
tsimbl into klezmer music with his classic LP “Jewish
Klezmer Music”. Today he performs with the group
Khevrisa and elsewhere. Having grown up with traditional
Ashkenazic, Greek and Armenian dance, during the 1970s
he researched and taught Turkish folkdance. Today
Feldman is a teacher and performer of Ashkenazic dance,
leading workshops in the U.S., Canada, England, Germany
and Israel. Zev is a part-time associate professor at
Bar-Ilan University (Tel-Aviv) and a fellow of the
Center for Jewish Music Research at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. He was a co-editor of the
Medimuses Project for Modal Musics of the Mediterranean
for the EnChordais School in Thessalonica, Greece. In
2004 he co-directed the successful application of the
Mevlevi Dervishes of Turkey for the UNESCO proclamation
of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage
of humanity. In 2003 he curated the concert series “The
Revival of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York” at the
CUNY Graduate Center. He was the artistic director for
Jewish music at the 92nd Street in New York, and was the
artistic director of the series “Music and Dance of the
Jewish Wedding” (2004-2007) and "Music of the Mystics"(2005).
Today he is teaching klezmer music at the Rubin Academy
of Music in Jerusalem.
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Pesakh
Fizman
(USA, Yiddish)
 Among
Yiddish speakers, storytelling has a long tradition:
Pesakh Fiszman, a native Yiddish speaker born and raised
in Argentina and living today in New York, is one such
storyteller. Equally entertaining and informative, he
tells stories of miracle-working rabbis, of fools and
simpletons or of the wisdom of King Solomon. His rare
gift and humorous style make the stories comprehensible
even to listeners who thought they couldn’t understand
Yiddish. Using the full-immersion method, Fiszman
teaches Yiddish language and literature all around the
world: at Columbia University, University of Moscow,
KlezKanada Festival in Montreal, Oxford Institute for
Yiddish Studies. In 2006, the Weimar Klezmer Wochen is
inviting Fiszman for the fourth time to be Lecturer in
Yiddish, the „language without a country.“
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Sue Foy
(Hungary, dance master)
 is a
Budapest based dance ethnographer who documented klezmer
dance in New York from the elderly immigrant Jewish
generation alive during the 1980s. In addition to
klezmer dance, Sue has spent decades learning and
teaching Hungarian traditional dance and will be leading
the dance workshops.
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Susan
Ghergus
(Moldova, piano)
studied
piano at the Music Conservatory in Kishinev and is a
longstanding specialist in the accompaniment and
arrangement of Jewish song. She is highly experienced in
classical piano techniques and is an expert in the style
of Jewish dance music. This combination makes her an
outstanding musician as she is able to blend Klezmer
rhythms with the melodies of Yiddish songs stylishly
with a Jewish, Bessarabian flair.
Susan is a leader of "Theatre of Jewish Song" (Kishinev)
and soloists of "Klezmer Alliance" (German-Moldova-England).
Together with "Klezmer Alliance" she performed more than
150 concerts in Europe.
www.myspace.com/klezmeralliance
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Dorothea
Greve
(Germany, Yiddish)
 For years,
Dorothea Greve has taught Yiddish language courses at
the University of Hamburg and crash courses at various
foreign universities. Additionally, she is the lead
singer and reciter of the KARAHOD ENSEMBLE and also
sings in the Klezmer ensemble FREJLECHS. She is a
founder of the Salomo-Birnbaum-Association for Yiddish
in Hamburg and used to perform in numerous
Yiddish-Jewish theatre productions. Furthermore, does
she translate Yiddish literature into German, e. g.
stories by the Ukrainian-Yiddish writer Alexander Lisen
or the diary about the ghetto and concentration camp
experience by Mascha Rolnikaite. In Weimar, Dorothea
Greve will repeatedly teach a beginner’s crash course in
Yiddish language.
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Florin
Kordoban
(Romania, dance master)
lead
fiddler of the Paltka band, will be teaching dancing but
also playing for concerts and jams. Florin is the son of
the late master fiddler Marton Kordoban of Palatka. He
speaks Romanian, Hungarian, Romani, and if pressed, a
bit of English ….
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Gyula
Kozma
(Hungary, bass)
Gyula
plays in the oldest Transylvanian styles using three
stringed gut strung folk basses. He is a member of “Di
Naye Kapelye”.
www.dinayekapelye.com
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Tcha
Limberger
(Belgien, voice/violin)
 was born
into a musical family of old, with each member playing
musical instruments (his grandfather was the legendary
Piotto Limberger). His Manouch tzigane father, Vivi
Limberger, and his Flemish-born mother Lut Bruyneel each
inducted him into their own culture. As a young boy,
Tcha was bent on becoming a flamenco singer. Aged
twelve, he started out on the clarinet, joining the
family orchestra, the Piottos. In due course, he swapped
the flamenco guitar for a Django guitar, learning how to
play with the likes of Koen De Cauter and Fapy Lafertin
as he went along. At the instigation of Dick Vanderharst
and Herman Schamp to name just two, he learned how to
analyse music, considerably widening his horizons in the
process.
When Tcha turned seventeen, he took up the violin and by
the time he was twenty-one, he left for Budapest where
he took classical and zigane musical classes from Horvat
Bela.
Following his return, he went on to play in or set up a
number of orchestras, making quite a few recordings as a
freelance instrumentalist.
http://www.myspace.com/limbergertcha
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Sanne
Möricke
(Germany, accordion)
 is one of
today's most highly sought after klezmer accordionists.
She performs for KHUPE (D) and SUKKE (D/NL/GB), teaches
at KLEZKAMP, KLEZFEST LONDON and other festivals and
played with FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS ALLSTARS (USA),
Steven Greenman's STEMPENYU'S DREAM (USA), SUSAN WATTS,
JOANNE BORTS, MICHAEL ALPERT, VERETSKI PASS and many
others.
www.khupe.de
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Katharina
Müther
(Germany, voice/accordion)
 graduated
from Freiburg Music Academy and University in 1981 and
has been involved with Jewish music since her childhood.
She has appeared in various radio and TV-programs
(national and international), worked at Mannheim
Staatstheater in 1992/93 as stage musician in „Ghetto“
by Joshua Sobol and is now touring all over Germany,
Europe and the US. She lives near Freiburg im
Breisgau.Katharina loves teaching both individually and
in workshops about Yiddish and Sephardic music,
focussing on improvisation and arrangement of
songs.Since 2003 she is happy to be part of the teaching
team in Yiddish Summer Weimar.
www.voice-between-cultures.de
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Csaba Novak
(Hungary, bass)
 born in
1962 in Szolnok, Hungary, is from an all musicians
family. So it was only natural for him to start learning
music at an early age of 6. First he learned piano
playing, but as his father was a double bass player, he
was more interested in the double bass. At the age of 9
he continued his musical studies on double bass. At the
age of 12 he became member of the world famous Rajko
Music Band and School, where he continued both his
general and music studies. After finishing school he
went to play gipsy music in restaurants in Budapest. He
did that for almost 20 years. But something was missing…
It was then when he met Kalman Balogh cimbalom player,
and became the member of his world music group. Since
then he has played with many fine and famous musicians
in Hungary. At this moment he is member of two world
famous Hungarian music groups: the Balogh Kálmán Gipsy
Cimbalom Band, and the Palya Bea Quintet.
http://www.balogh-kalman.fw.hu
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Ferenc
Pribojszki
(Hungary, cimbalom)
Cimbalom
player Ferenc is the student of Transylvanian Roma
master Arpad Toni, one of the last Gypsy musicians to
maintain a Jewish repertoire. Ferenc is a member of “Di
Naye Kapelye”.
www.dinayekapelye.com
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Petar Ralchev (Bulgarien, accordion)
 was
born 1961 in the village of Poibrene, Pazardzhik
district. Aged 5 only, he played by ear the first folk
tune he heard from his uncle, an amateur musician. His
parents enrolled him into a music school and it was
there that he began from the very first grade, to learn
the secrets of the accordion under the guidance of
Kostadin Milarov. Later he was admitted into the Mihail
Mihailov’s class in Plovdiv. Those were the years which
provided a solid basis that has influenced his overall
growth as musician. In 1977 he was awarded the First
Prize at the Young Musician Competition held in Chirpan
while later on, at the International Competition in
Klingental, Germany, he was acknowledged for his
performance of a Bulgarian piece.
Today Petar works with almost all prominent musicians in
his sphere. Within a couple of years he made nine
releases of his performances, both solo and together. He
takes part in different festivals and performs in all
parts of the country and in Germany, Hungary, Norway,
Russia, Austria, Holland and other. In 1991 he toured
the major USA cities with “Bulgary”, a quintet
performing traditional Bulgarian folk music.
Petar participates in different musical projects and
seminars with European musicians: Stian Karstensen and
Jovan Pavlovich from Norway; Monique Lansdrop – Holland,
Kornel Horvath and Kalman Balogh – Hungary, Milcho
Leviev – Bulgaria, Enver Izmailov – Ukraine, Teodosii
Spasov- Bulgaria and others.
Petar Ralchev at YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJuzLjZghJM&feature=related
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Stas Rayko
(Ukraine/Germany, violin)
 born in
Ukraine, the land which was called 100 years ago the
cradle of klezmer, Stas performed with his “Kharkow
Klezmer Band” and “Kedem” in Europe from Kiew to London
(Klezfest in London, "Donafest", Kalaka Folk festival,
"SKIF Festival", "Jewish festival in Krakov", "Jüdisches
Festival in Fürth", "X-block Barbican Festival",
"Helsinki KLezmer Festival", "Altonale",
"Klezmerwelten"). He teached regularly at “Klezfest St.
Pertersburg” and was a faculty member of "Klezfest in
Kiev", "Kharkov Klezmer Teg" "Klez Kanada",
"Klezmerseminar Wien" and Yiddish Summer Weimar (2006).
Since 2003 Stas lives in Germany.
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Adrian Recean (France, clarinet)
 at the age
of 12 Adrian started playing clarinet in Moldova. In
1999 he performed at an international clarinet meeting
in the Bretonic village Glomel together with cimbalom
player Alex Ciobanu Moldavian music and discovered there
a lot of new facets of clarinet repertoire from all over
the world. Afterwards he enrolled at the national
conservatory of Boulogne-Bilancourt. In Jean-Max
Dussert’s master class Adrian improved his clarinet
playing. He also took part at ambitious courses of
ensemble coaching, workshops for chamber and orchestral
music and theory courses. Today Adrian lives in Paris
and performs regularly East European music at world
music festivals and concerts.
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Mark Rubin
(USA, bass/tuba)
 was born
to musician parents who met on the University of Arizona
marching band and nurtured their son's connection to
Judaism and his eclectic musical tastes. A life long
musician, the multi-talented Rubin is reknown as one of
the America’s most versatile sidemen, adept at a variety
of musical style and traditions. He was the founder of
the seminal American Alt-Folk pioneers The Bad Livers as
well as an in-demand sideman on the Texas honky tonk and
ethnic dancehall scene. He has also produced music for
two major motion pictures, writes regularly for
publication, hosted a popular late night radio program
in Austin for nearly a decade and has produced dozens of
American folk music CD's, including the Grammy nominated
Corason de Piedra for Tex-Mex accordion legend Santiago
Jimenez, Jr. He was recently elected Noble Grand of his
local Odd Fellows Lodge. Mark is an experienced Klezmer
bass and tuba player having played with a virtual
who’s-who of the modern Jewish music scene. He is a
member of Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and
Henry Sapoznik & the Youngers of Zion and has also
worked on the faculty of Klezmer festivals around the
world including KlezKamp, Festival of Jewish Culture in
Kracow, Klez Fest London and many others.
A noted teller of tall tales and a master of hyperbole,
Rubin currently holds the title as “Best Pete Sokolow”
impersonation, Southwest Division.
www.markrubin.com
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Fabian
Schnedler
(Germany, voice)
 studied
voice with Andrea Hofmann and Jessica Ryder and has been
peforming Klezmer and Yiddish songs for over 10 years.
He has a degree in Literature and Ethnomusicology from
the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. He studied at Ernst
Busch, Germany’s principal drama school, and toured with
theatre companies including Robert Wilson’s ‘Saints and
Singing’. He is a pioneer in Yiddish Acoustic Pop Music
with his project Fayvish. He founded the duo „Schikker
wi Lot“ together with the accordeonist Franka Lampe five
years ago. Schnedler sings, plays the poyk and sometimes
leads dancing with Tants in Gartn Eydn Berlin’s popular
Klezmer dance band.
www.myspace.com/fayvish
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Guy Schalom
(United Kingdom, percussion)
 Described
by fROOTS magazine as “one of the most versatile and
interesting percussionists working in the UK today”
percussionist, dancer and independent record producer,
Guy Schalom has performed in the Middle East, throughout
Europe and North America. Having graduated with a degree
in Popular Music and Recording, Guy is particularly
sought after in the field of Jewish music and is among
the most in-demand klezmer drummers in Europe. It is
however the field of World Music in which Guy is most
well known. He has a busy touring schedule and has
worked with the likes of Frank London, The Klezmatics,
Josh "SoCalled" Dolgin, Michael Alpert, Susan Watts and
David Krakauer. He is a founding member of the
pan-European “Klezmer Alliance” as well Ukrainian
Village Brass Band “Konsonans Retro” featuring Berlin's
Christian Dawid and also runs his own duo:
“Schalom-Bakhshayesh”.
Music and Dance are closely linked and Guy works
regularly with Arabic dancers to convey this connection
combining choreographies and on-the-spot Improvisations.
He is co-artistic director of Egyptian Dance and Music
company “Raqs Wa Musica Al Masraya Ltd” presenting the
artistic and theatrical side of Raqs Sharqi and Egyptian
music.
www.guyschalom.com
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Jake
Shulman-Ment (USA, violin)
 is
among the leaders of the new generation of Klezmer and
Eastern European folk music performers. He has
co-founded, performed, and recorded extensively
throughout the United States since the age of fourteen
with groups including Romashka, MetróFolk, the
Klezminors, the Village Klezmer Quintet, and Art
Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar. He has performed with such
luminaries as David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik,
Alicia Svigals, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer,
Adrienne Cooper, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer
Mountain Boys, Fleytmuzik, Életfa Hungarian Folk Band,
and many others. Jake has created, directed, and
performed music for a number of theater pieces,
including several shows with director and artist Jenny
Romaine of Great Small Works. He co-founded and
regularly performs at “Tantshoyz,” the monthly Yiddish
dance party at Manhattan's JCC. His wide range of styles
includes klezmer, classical, Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy,
and Greek. An avid traveler, Jake has recently collected,
studied, performed, and documented traditional folk
music in Hungary, Romania, and Greece. Jake currently
resides in Brooklyn, New York.
www.myspace.com/jakeshulmanment
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Adam Stinga (Moldova, trumpet)
 was
born in 1962 in the village Zirnesti, district Cahul. In
1985 he successfully graduated from the Institute of
Arts “Gavriil Muzicescu” from Chisinau. He collaborated
with many orchestras like “Lautarii”, “Busuioc
Moldovenesc”, “Mugurel”, “Joc” and has played many
concerts in countries like Italy, Germany, France,
Ireland, Finland, Swiss, and Latin America, etc. Adam
has recorded two CDs.
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