Noah Bendix-Balgley was the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster from 2011 through 2015. Now the Concertmaster for theBerlin Philharmonic, Bendix-Balgley continues to showcase his artistic ...

With an energetic new director at the helm, 29-year-old accordionist Dmitri Gaskin, KlezCalifornia is embracing the veteran ...

Violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter performing the music of John Williams. (Deutsche Grammophon: Terry Linke) Whether fronting the orchestra as a soloist, weaving gorgeous melodies in a chamber ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- There’s that bar scene in “Fiddler on the Roof,” where Ukrainians and Jews drink and dance together. That happens in Cleveland in real life. At a holiday party, a 15-woman ...

It was in Petaluma that Julie Egger, a violinist raised in a secular Jewish household on New York's Long Island, committed herself to the effervescent Jewish folk music known as klezmer. Since that ...

Daniel Hoffman wants to put klezmer music back on the map. It’s not that there aren’t opportunities to hear the generally merry sounds of the Eastern European genre in shows and in various recorded ...

What do Itzhak Perlman, Tevye, Fagin, Betty Boop, early jazz, Yentl, Millie (as in “Thoroughly Modern”) and UC Irvine have in common? They’ve all been klezmerized! And so will Segerstrom Concert Hall ...

Smoked fish and klezmer are two sure signs of a happy Jewish occasion. But as author Thane Rosenbaum discovered, klezmer provides more than a soundtrack for simchas. In his 2002 novel "Golems of ...

She didn’t exactly get into klezmer music to become a rock star. But it may have felt like that was happening anyway, when Yaeko Miranda Elmaleh played violin for an audience of thousands at the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From the dazzling pyrotechnics of a concerto to folk, Klezmer and bluegrass, the violin is a versatile ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...