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Faculty:
Cesar
Lerner,
Marcelo
Moguilevsky (Buenos Aires) |
Sruli
Dresdner,
Tom Burke (New York) |
Alan
Bern (Berlin) Artists in Residence:
Isabelle Marx
(Strasbourge) &
Patries
Wichers (Antwerp)
02.
- 08. February, 2009:
Winter
Edition 2009:
Improvisation, Nigunim and the Voice
Konzerte der Winter Edition 2009
February, 1st
| 7 pm, Coudray-Saal music school
Winter
Tales - Klezmorim & Lautari together again
14 amazing
musicians of the Other Europeans project play
together a brend new repertoire. Don't miss this world
premiere!
February, 7th
| 7 pm, Coudray-Saal music school
The art of
Improvisation - concert of the participants
Tickets
(14,50 Euro / 10,50 Euro)
here or at the Tourist Information Weimar, hotline
03643 745 745 or at the box office.
Topics
of Winter Edition 2009:
How to approach the voice
in an improvisation ensemble as an instrument as
flexible and experimental as a clarinet, violin, or any
other instrument.
How to understand not just the
melodies of nigunim, but also the physical way they are
sung that produces the tone colors and sounds that are
so essential to the language of traditional Yiddish
singing. To work on these two questions together in one
workshop meant creating a team of teachers and artists
with complementary skills, very much like a research
team.
The
artists:
Cesar
Lerner and Marcelo Moguilevsky (Buenos Aires) are among
the most creative, open, and grounded musicians in
improvisation. Sruli Dresdner (New York) brings a huge
repertoire of Chasidic nigunim and a deeply traditional
way of singing them. Sruli will also be a model of
traditional Yiddish singing technique for our vocal
coach, Tom Burke (New York). Tom is a master teacher of
the Estill vocal technique and a vocal pathologist, as
well as a wonderful singer himself. With the help of
the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Isabelle Marx (Strasbourg) and Patries Wichers (Antwerp)
will be Artists-in-Residence during the Winter Edition. Both Isabelle and Patries are improvisers who use their
voices as singers and actresses in very imaginative and
powerful ways.
This workshop is for professional and
advanced instrumentalists and vocalists who are not
afraid to improvise, who love the world of Yiddish song
and nigunim, and who can approach the two together in a
spirit of both passion and research.
(Argentina, piano, accordion, percussion)
(Argentina,
clarinet, flute)
Two
decades ago Lerner and Moguilevsky formed a prolific duo
making an important contribution and opening new trends
in popular instrumental music. Born of Russian and
Polish grandparents who immigrated to Argentina at the
turn of the century, they have contributed to the
recreation of Klezmer style since 1996 without
anthropological pretension. On the contrary, they have
developed their own language based on improvisation,
combining musical elements from Argentinean folk music,
jazz, contemporary music, and tango. Music composers for
film, theatre and dance, they have collaborated with
musicians of different styles and used this wide
aesthetic background to create a distinct version of
Klezmer in each concert.
www.lernermoguilevsky.com.ar
www.diasporaredux.com
Sruli is a
singer and klemzer musician who specializes in
traditional Hasidic nigunim. Sruli was raised in a
Hasidic environment where he learned hundres of nigunim
from his family and community. Sruli has shared his love
for traditional Hasidic melodies all over the world,
including KlezKanada, the Krakow Jewish Festival and
Yiddish Summer Weimar.
www.sruliandlisa.com
Tom is a
licensed speech-language pathologist, Certified Course
Instructor/Master Teacher of the Estill Voice Training
System and Associate Teacher of the Fitzmaurice
Voicework. He currently maintains a private practice in
New York City providing voice training and rehab to
Broadway singers, voice over artists, broadcasters, and
executives at Fortune 500 companies including Google and
Citi Group: Smith Barney. He also serves as adjunct
faculty at Pace University's Musical Theater Program.
www.tomburkevoice.com
Trained as
a classical pianist, the cultural revolution of the
1960s profoundly affected Bern’s life priorities and
inspired a life-long search for music, ideas and
experiences which could withstand the growing nihilism,
isolation, hysteria, and dehumanization of our age. This
let him into many kinds of folk music, jazz, philosophy,
cognitive science, and alternative education. He is
co-founder and director of Yiddish Summer Weimar, other
music e.V. and Brave Old World, founding director of
Diaspora Redux and The Other Europeans, and performs
with the Bern/Brody/Rodach Trio, the Klucevsek/Bern duo,
and other projects.
www.myspace.com/alanbern
www.yiddish-summer-weimar.de
www.diasporaredux.com
Isabelle
was trained as a classical singer before looking for
other ways to use the voice. She participated in the
Theatre Roy Hart and in Martina Catella’s classes in
Paris, where she worked on voice and body mechanisms in
verbal and musical communication. Her powerful presence
as a singer and actress brought her wide recognition in
various theater and musical productions. In 1999, she
created her own company, “Courant d’Art” in Strasbourg,
France, through which she organizes events which foster
cultural exchange, such as “Les Lissières Judéo-Arabes,
l’Epopée de l’écriture de Ghilgamesh à nos jours (2001),
involving artists of many disciplines and venues, such
as exhibitions, concerts, calligraphy workshops, and
conferences. In 2003, she initiated a research and
creative project centered on the voice which gave birth
to a French-German creation “Eclats de voix.” In 2006,
she joined the MUS-E program of the International Yehudi
Menuhin Foundation, using the arts to work in primary
schools against racism, violence and exclusion.
www.courantdart-voix.com/museartistes2.php?file=isabelle%20muse
Patries
Wichers was born in 1959 in the Netherlands from
Indonesian parents. She trained as a painter in the
Royal Academy of‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) with a degree in
Pedagogy and Didactics for artists. Until 2000, she
worked on a painting career with exhibitions and grants.
She also worked in fashion and theater and thanks to
this experience still draws a lot of inspiration for
working with children.With four other artists and an
historian, she formed in 1998 the pressure group Hit &
Run, which occupied during two weeks the former Royal
Palace in Antwerp in order to obtain for all artists a
legal status in Belgium. This action leads to the
creation of the national artist’s organization, “NICC.”In
1991, during her first journey in Indonesia, she had an
encounter with traditional and contemporary singing on
Java and Bali and recognized something deep inside of
her. From 1994, she started using her voice with other
people. The Bald and Beautiful: jazz standards, and
Vinyl Dumbbells, funk-rock. In 1998 she created “Bateau
Lavoir”, and collaborated with Archie Shepp (New York)
and Tri-Factor (Chicago). Since 2000 she has been
working with children in the MUS-E project of the Yehudi
Menuhin Foundation and in various museums (Fine Arts,
Ethnographic, Contemporary Arts).
www.bateaulavoir.org/www.iyouwesharetheworld.eu/site/iyouwe-project/gallery/patries-wichers
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