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Michael Alpert (New York) — One of the pioneers of the "Klezmer Rennaisance," a wave of increased interest in the music of Eastern European Jews during the 1970s and 1980s in the West, chiefly in the U.S. The klezmer group Alpert founded, "Brave Old World," has performed throughout the world for many years... more >> |
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Lorin Sklamberg (New York) — vocalist, accordionist, leader of the klezmer group "The Klezmatics". The unique voice of Lorin Sklamberg can be heard on more than thirty CDs, earning worldwide awards for Jewish spiritual music including Nigunium (1998) and The Zmiros Project (2001). more >> |
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Arkady Gendler (Zaporozhye) — author and singer of Yiddish songs. Arkady Gendler is unique in the former Soviet Union as a Yiddish teacher in a public school. |
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Valery Dymshits (St. Petersburg) — doctor of sciences, ethnographer, collector of folklore, director of the "St. Petersburg Judaica" center. |
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Stanislav Rayko (Hamburg) — violinist, founder of the most popular klezmer group in the former Soviet Union, the "Kharkov Klezmer Band". |
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