The Klezmographers at Barbès, Brooklyn
Schedule
Tue, 11 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Barbes Cafe, Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY
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The KlezmographersEleonore Biezunski on violin and vocals
Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl
Eléonore Biezunski (violin, vocals) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) have teamed up to explore the richness of traditional klezmer and Yiddish folksong. The duo performs rare repertoire from 19th and early 20th century collections of Jewish folklore as well as original klezmer tunes. In 2023, they were commissioned by Jessica Kirzane of the University of Chicago to compose music to the 1920s Ukrainian-Yiddish children's book "Toward Hopeful Skies" by Yuriy Budiak which they will premiere in New York at this show. Together, they have performed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, at the American Folk Art Museum, Temple Beth Emeth, Barbès, Jalopy Theater, at Chicago University and have busked in parks and shores of New York.
ELEONORE BIEZUNSKI is an award-winning Parisian singer/violinist/songwriter and scholar now living in NYC. An avid collector of Yiddish music, she has led several projects and has collaborated with a large number of well-known Jewish performers in the US and abroad. Her recordings include Yerushe (IEMJ, 2016) and Zol zayn (2014). Her composition “Tshemodan” was voted Best New Yiddish Song by São Paulo’s 2021 Bubbe Awards. As YIVO’s Sound Archivist, Eléonore coordinates the Ruth Rubin Legacy website (ruthrubin.yivo.org). She has a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is also a member of the Klezmer Institute’s KMDMP and Klezmer Archive Project and is a recipient of an NYSCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship.
PETE RUSHEFSKY is a leading performer, composer and teacher of the tsimbl (cimbalom), the traditional hammered dulcimer of klezmer music; he is the developer of Concert Form Klezmer, a performance system that draws upon Near Eastern and Central Asian classical musics. He serves as executive director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, which has worked to preserve and present immigrant performing arts traditions in New York City since 1968. He has performed internationally at major venues and festivals such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Town Hall and Symphony Space, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Paris’s Cité de la Musique, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Krakow’s Jewish Culture Festival, Vienna’s KlezMore Festival, Fürth’s (Germany) International Klezmer Festival and Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival.
He has concertized and recorded with classical violinist Itzhak Perlman and with many of Jewish music’s leading performers, including Klezmatics fiddler Lisa Gutkin, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgott, Andy Statman, Klezmer Conservatory Band, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Adrianne Greenbaum, Alan Bern and Jake Shulman-Ment.
A popular instructor of klezmer who has taught at institutes and camps across North America and Europe, Rushefsky is the author of a pioneering instructional book on adapting the American five-string banjo for klezmer, as well as a book on klezmer performance for hammered dulcimer. He frequently publishes and lectures on ethnic music in America.
Tuesday, February 11th • 7pm
Barbès • 376 9th st • Brooklyn, New York 11215
$20 suggested
Tickets: https://www.viewcy.com/e/eleonore_biezunski__1
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