Performance

 

Ottoman and Sephardic Music — Performances

  • Ottoman Music with Ensemble Sazkar, Confederation House, Jerusalem, Inbal Theater, Tel-Aviv, June 2010; at International Oud Festival (Jerusalem, November 2010).
  • Ottoman and Ladino Music with Ensemble Sazkar, featuring Claudia Nurit Henig. Inbal Theater, Tel-Aviv (June 2007);
  • Performance with Claudia Nurit Henig at the House of the President for the visit of Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Jerusalem, (June, 2007).
  • Artistic director (with Fikret Karakaya) Bezmara Ensemble for early Ottoman music, sponsored by the French Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul (Summers, 1998 and 1999).
  • Lecture-demonstration “Aesthetics of Ottoman Tanbur Playing,” Kevorkian Center, New York University (February 1, 1995).
  • Concert and public interview-lecture together with Cinucen Tanrikorur (Mevlevi composer and oud-virtuoso), Princeton University (April 4, 1991).
  • Concert with Necdet Yasar (leading tanbur virtuoso), Philadelphia (April 17, 1989).
  • Concert with Necdet Yasar and Ihsan Ozgen Philadelphia Art Museum (February 14, 1988).

Klezmer Music

  • Ashkenaz Festival (with Zilien Biret, Christina Crowder).Toronto. September 2016.
  • Yoni Kaston house concert series,  (with Julien Biret, Christina Crowder). Montreal, March 2016.
  • Participant in filming of Ashkenazic dance by Hungarian/Canadian film crew under Tamas Wormser for film The Wandering Muse. (NYC, October 2012).
  • Performances as cimbalist and repertoire advisor with the Alexander Fiterstein Trio: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rockefeller University, Queens College, Music Mountain Festival, National Yiddish Book Center (September—October 2008, 2009, 2010).
  • Celebration for the Publication of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with Eliezer Rosenblatt (April 2008).
  • Concert of Ashkenzic Piyyut with Nitsan Khen Razael, Beit Avichai, Jerusalem (June 2008).
  • Concerts of Khevrisa Ensemble (artistic director and performer): “Under the Canopy of Heaven” at the Festival of Jewish Culture, Krakow, Poland (July 2006), at
  • the Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y (November 2004); Concert Gebow, Amsterdam and the Vredenburg, Utrecht (February 2004); Ittingen Pfingstkonzerte, Switzerland (June 2003); Geneva, Switzerland (June 2003); Ohio State University, (January 2003); Symphony Space, World Music Institute, New York (October 2002); Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto (August 2002); Festival of Jewish Culture,
  • Kracow, Poland (June 2002); Festival Musica dei Popoli, Florence, Italy (October 2001); Utrecht, Haarlem, Groningen (Netherlands, February 2001); Klezmer Music Festival, Ancona, Italy (July, 2000), Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto (August 1999).
  • Concert: David Krakauer, Zev Feldman, Nikki Parott (City University Graduate Center, (January, 2003).

Recordings

 

Klezmer Music - Recordings

  • CD Recording: “The Alexander Fiterstein Trio: Traditional Jewish Chamber and Dance Music,” Music Mountain Festival, August 30, 2009.
  • CD "Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music," Smithsonian Folkways (April 2000).
  • LP (with Andy Statman) “Zev Feldman and Andy Statman: Jewish Klezmer Music," Shanachie Records, 1979.
  • LP (with Andy Statman) “Dave Tarras: Music of the Traditional Jewish Wedding” (Balkan Arts Center, NYC, 1979; reissued as CD by Center for Traditional and Dance, 2007).

Ottoman and Sephardic Music — Recordings

  • CD recording of Ensemble Sazkar (performing on tanbur, santouri and Ladino vocals).
  • CD “Tanburi Isak” (with Fiket Karakaya) for En Chordais (Thessalonika), recorded by the Bezmara Ensemble in Istanbul, (Fall 2003).

Concerts & Concerts Series Presented

 
  • Concert: Ma’youf Bahri Band (Kuwait), NYU AD Institute, March 2, 2015.
  • Concert: Pakistani song-writers “Zeb and Haniya” with klezmer clarinetist Michael Winograd and Patrick Farrell. NYU AD Institute, April 4, 2013.
  • Concert and Lecture: “Musician-Scholars of the Middle East,” (Professors Dariush Talai, Teheran U, Ali Jihad Racy, Münir Nurettin Beken, UCLA), Abu Dhabi Institute (December 2010).
  • Concert-series: “Love and Longing in Jewish Song” (Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and students, Arboleras, Esti Kenan and Pharaoh’s Daughter), 92nd Street Y (2006-2007).
  • Concert-series: “Shared Sacred Space of the Eastern Mediterranean” (Bezmara, Lalezar, Romeiko Byzantine Choir, the Jerusalem Maftirim Ensemble), 92nd Street Y (2005-2006).
  • Concert-series: “Music and Dance of the Jewish Wedding” (Ashkenaz: Khevrisa, Bukharan: Tofakhon Pinkhasova, North Moroccan: Esti Kenan), 92nd Street Y (2004-2005).
  • Concert/Lecture Series: The Revival of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York, 1975-2002 (featuring Khevrisa, Joshua Waletzky, David Krakauer, and the Singing Table). The Baisley Powell Elebash Lectures. Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center City University of New York (January 2003).
  • Turkish and Central Asian Music for the “Silk Road Festival” sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Agha Khan Foundation, Washington, D.C. (presenter, July 2002).
  • "Musical Bridges: Jewish and Muslim Traditions of Asia," The Jewish Museum, The Free Synagogue of Flushing, New York (presenter and ethnomusicological advisor, March, April 1996).
  • Oral bards from Kazakhstan and Turkey at the Saint Donats Festival in Wales, UK (presenter, July  1996).
  • Presenter of Azerbaijani mugham virtuoso Alim Qasimov for Smithsonian Festival, Washington, D.C.(summer,1988).  
  • Concerts with leading Turkish classical virtuosi, Necdet Yaşar and Ihsan Özgen, Philadephia, New York, Chicago (organizer, 1987-88).
  • Dave Tarras (1897-1989), leading klezmer clarinetist in North America (concert organizer, 1978, 1979, 1980).