List of klezmer musicians
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Klezmer
Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations...
musicians:
- Aaron Alexander
- Michael AlpertMichael AlpertMichael Alpert is a klezmer singer and multi-instrumentalist and has been called a key figure in the klezmer revival of the 1970s and 1980s....
- József BaloghJózsef BaloghJózsef Balogh is a Hungarian clarinetist.Balogh was a student of Bela Kovacs at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Budapest. He is a solo clarinetist in the Budapest Opera and Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has been the president of the Hungarian Clarinet Society since 1994.- Discography :*...
- Shloimke (Sam) BeckermanShloimke (Sam) BeckermanShloimke "Sam" Beckerman was an American klezmer clarinetist; he was a contemporary of Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein. He was a soloist as well as a member of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra at the New York's Little Club in the 1920s. He continued to play well into the 1950s...
- Sidney BeckermanSidney BeckermanSidney "Sid" Beckerman was an influential klezmer clarinet player. He learned the style from his father Shloimke, who was himself a well known klezmer soloist....
- Alan BernAlan BernAlan Bern , born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, is the musical director of Brave Old World, and remains one of the leading lights in the teaching and revival of Yiddish music in the US, Canada, and Europe since the early 1980s.-Life:...
- Geoff BernerGeoff BernerGeoff Berner is a Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player from Vancouver, British Columbia.Due to his insightful humor, politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship, Berner has gained a cult following over the years, especially in Canada and Norway, where he recorded his first...
- Naftule BrandweinNaftule BrandweinNaftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, was a Jewish clarinetist and influential klezmer musician.- Early life :Brandwein was born in Przemyslany, Poland-Galicia , into a family of klezmer musicians, part of the Stretiner Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Yehuda Hirsch Brandwein of Stratin...
- Stuart Brotman
- Don ByronDon ByronDon Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....
- Brian ChoperBrian ChoperBrian Choper is an American drummer, percussionist, band manager and author. Withover 30 years experience playing both nationally and internationally, he has been featured on 9 CD's,...
- Abe ElenkriegAbe ElenkriegAbe Elenkrieg or Elenkrig was a trumpeter, barber and bandleader of "Abe Elenkrig's Yiddishe Orchestra" and the "Hebrew Bulgarian Orchestra".Connoisseurs consider his klezmer records the great neglected treasures of klezmer music...
- Giora FeidmanGiora FeidmanGiora Feidman is an Argentinian-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.-Biography:Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians...
- German GoldenshteynGerman GoldenshteynGerman Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA. In 1994 he arrived with nearly a thousand klezmer tunes that he had transcribed...
- David Julian Gray
- Elaine Hoffman-WattsElaine Hoffman-WattsElaine Hoffman-Watts is a klezmer drummer from Philadelphia, USA. She comes from a line of klezmer musicians from what is now Ukraine and is the daughter of Jacob Hoffman, a klezmer xylophone player and bandleader from the 1920s who also played with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ballets Russes...
- Josh HorowitzJosh HorowitzJoshua Horowitz is an American klezmer accordionist and cimbalom player as well as a musical scholar, klezmer teacher and ethnomusicologist. He plays in klezmer groups Budowitz and Veretski Pass....
- Alex JacobowitzAlex JacobowitzAlex Jacobowitz is a classically-trained street performer who plays the marimba and xylophone.-New York:During the 1980s and 1990s he played in New York City, including at the Lincoln Center's "Meet the Artist" program, Yeshiva University, Zabar's, Central Park, the 84th Street Synagogue,...
- Fred Jacobowitz
- David KrakauerDavid KrakauerDavid Krakauer is an American clarinetist. He is a graduate of the High School of Music & Art, class of 1974. He is mostly known for his klezmer compositions. He became involved with klezmer music in the late 1980s while working as a classical musician, joining The Klezmatics...
- César LernerCésar Lerner-Filmography:* Nueve reinas aka Nine Queens* Esperando al mesías aka Waiting for the Messiah* Aquellos niños * El abrazo partido Lost Embrace* Derecho de familia aka Family Law...
- Margot LeverettMargot LeverettMargot Leverett is a New York-based clarinettist. Born in Ohio, she lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York before studying at Indiana University School of Music. At Indiana, she was classically trained. Leverett later became interested in klezmer, a traditional musical style of...
- Frank LondonFrank LondonFrank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer active in klezmer and world music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. With The Klezmatics, he won a Grammy award in Contemporary World Music for "Wonder Wheel...
- Joseph MoskowitzJoseph MoskowitzJoseph Moskowitz was a Romanian-born Jewish cymbalum player, son of a folk klezmer cimbalist. He eventually settled in the United States....
(See "CymbalumCymbalumThe cimbalom is a concert hammered dulcimer: a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box with metal strings stretched across its top...
") - Hankus NetskyHankus NetskyHankus Netsky is an American klezmer musician, teacher, composer, and researcher. He is a founding member and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band as well as research directory for the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and perpetuating Jewish...
- Moni OvadiaMoni OvadiaMoni Ovadia is an Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author. "Moni" is short for "Salomone" .-Career:Ovadia was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1946 to a Jewish family who moved to Milan in Ovadia's early childhood...
- Pete RushefskyPete RushefskyPete Rushefsky is an American klezmer musician and Executive Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance. He plays the cimbalom or "tsimbl" as well as the 5-string banjo....
- Henry SapoznikHenry SapoznikHenry "Hank" Sapoznik העניק סאַפאַזשניק is an award winning author, record and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. With MacArthur Fellow David Isay, he produced the 10-week radio series the on the history of Jewish broadcasting for NPR’s All Things Considered...
- Abe SchwartzAbe SchwartzAbe Schwartz was a well-known klezmer musician of the 1920s.Abe was born outside of Bucharest, Romania, and moved to the United States in 1899...
- Elizabeth Schwartz
- Cookie Segelstein
- Andy StatmanAndy StatmanAndy Statman is a noted Klezmer clarinetist and bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist.Andy Statman was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He first gained acclaim as a mandolinist in pioneering bluegrass bands Country Cookin' and Breakfast Special. Statman, who grew up in a traditional but secular Jewish...
- Yale StromYale StromYale Strom is a pioneer among klezmer revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities since 1981. Initially, his work focused primarily on the use and performance of klezmer music between these two groups...
- Alicia SvigalsAlicia SvigalsAlicia Svigals is an American violinist and composer, is a founder of the Grammy-winning band The Klezmatics and is considered by many to be the world's foremost living klezmer fiddler.-Life and career:...
- Dave TarrasDave TarrasDave Tarras was possibly the most famous 20th century klezmer musician. He is known for his long career and his very skilled clarinet playing.-Biography:...