Michael Alpert (Eastern European Singing (Polish/Ukrainian/Yiddish)/Klezmer Band)
MICHAEL ALPERT has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of East European Jewish klezmer music for over 30 years. He is internationally known for his award-winning performances and recordings with Brave Old World, Kapelye, Khevrisa, David Krakauer, Itzhak Perlman, Theodore Bikel, German Goldenshteyn and salsa legend Larry Harlow. Raised in a Yiddish-speaking family, he is noted for his original Yiddish songs. Adept in 20 languages and ethnic vocal styles from Russian to Mexican, his appearances include concert venues throughout North America, Europe, Israel, and Australia.
Alpert was the Emmy Award / Rose D’Or winning Musical Director of the PBS Great Performances special Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House, Executive Producer of the two Perlman klezmer CDs on Angel/EMI, and directed the subsequent international concert tours. He performed with Brave Old World in the above productions and appeared with Mr. Perlman on CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman.
Featured in the documentary films A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden (USA 1987), Fiddler on the Hoof (BBC/Channel Four 1990), Sabbath in Paradise (Germany 1998), and The New Klezmorim (Canada 2000), Alpert has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered," "A Prairie Home Companion," CNN, and NBC. He performs with Kapelye in the Hollywood film The Chosen and is heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack album from the acclaimed documentary Partisans of Vilna.
A former Research Associate at NYC’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Alpert has conducted extensive documentation of music and dance in Jewish communities throughout North America and Europe, and is a leading contemporary teacher and researcher of East European Jewish traditional dance. His ethnographic work has focused on Jewish traditions from the USSR and Former Soviet Union. He is translator and co-editor of Jewish Instrumental Folk Music (Syracuse University Press, 2001), the pioneering 1938 work on klezmer music by Soviet ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski.
Alpert has taught and lectured at Oxford University, Columbia University, Yale University, Indiana University, Amherst College, the University of British Columbia, the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), and the New England Conservatory of Music. Click HERE for Michael's web site.
Alpert was the Emmy Award / Rose D’Or winning Musical Director of the PBS Great Performances special Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House, Executive Producer of the two Perlman klezmer CDs on Angel/EMI, and directed the subsequent international concert tours. He performed with Brave Old World in the above productions and appeared with Mr. Perlman on CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman.
Featured in the documentary films A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden (USA 1987), Fiddler on the Hoof (BBC/Channel Four 1990), Sabbath in Paradise (Germany 1998), and The New Klezmorim (Canada 2000), Alpert has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered," "A Prairie Home Companion," CNN, and NBC. He performs with Kapelye in the Hollywood film The Chosen and is heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack album from the acclaimed documentary Partisans of Vilna.
A former Research Associate at NYC’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Alpert has conducted extensive documentation of music and dance in Jewish communities throughout North America and Europe, and is a leading contemporary teacher and researcher of East European Jewish traditional dance. His ethnographic work has focused on Jewish traditions from the USSR and Former Soviet Union. He is translator and co-editor of Jewish Instrumental Folk Music (Syracuse University Press, 2001), the pioneering 1938 work on klezmer music by Soviet ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski.
Alpert has taught and lectured at Oxford University, Columbia University, Yale University, Indiana University, Amherst College, the University of British Columbia, the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), and the New England Conservatory of Music. Click HERE for Michael's web site.
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The Brothers Nazaroff played @ Branded Saloon in Brooklyn, NY — with Robert Z.Cohen, Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Michael Alpert and Jake Shulman-Ment at Branded Saloon.
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