21/02/2018
Lidarti, Cristiano Giuseppe (1730-after 1793)
A composer born in Vienna who spent a large part of his life in Italy, Lidarti was the author of several Hebrew works, including the famous oratorio Ester, the longest and …
21/02/2018
Mélanie Gardyn
(France, classical music, Yiddish song) Mélanie Gardyn sings in musical ensembles such as the Concert Spirituel or the choir of Radio France. In May 2017 she won in Amsterdam with Natacha Medvedeva the 1st international prize of Jewish music …
15/02/2018
Psalms and psalmodies
Traditionally attributed to King David, the 150 poetic texts that make up the book of Psalms, however, have a more uncertain origin: it would probably be a set of poems …
12/02/2018
Toscano, Paul
Paul Toscano was a gypsy violinist and conductor, known in France and Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. We know relatively little about the artist, except that …
12/02/2018
Inger, Richard (1915-1980)
Richard Inger was born on January 2, 1915, in Germany. He studied singing in Vienna.In 1942, he was deported to a concentration camp and owed his survival to his vocal …
10/02/2018
Mosaik Klezmer
(Klezmer, judeo-spanish, judeo-arabic, Paris) Formed in 2011, this group draws its inspiration from klezmer music, an Ashkenazi Jewish musical tradition, which mixes influences such as Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Arabic music …
10/02/2018
Balkanes
(Song of the Balkans, Sephardic songs, Lyon) Balkanes was created in December 1996 through the encounter of four young women. From different backgrounds, they have come together to create original songs from the traditional Balkan repertoire …
10/02/2018
Symphonic Orchestra of the Orsay Campus
(Classical Music, France) The repertoire of the orchestra is very big because in forty years of existence no musical genre has been ignored …
10/02/2018
Kabaretalè
(Klezmer, Yiddish, France) KABARETALE is above all a show with SONGS. … but not only ! There is also dance, stories, instruments, a puppet …
10/02/2018
Rémy Yulzari
Bassist and composer Rémy Yulzari reinvents the role of double bass solo and in collaboration in a wide range of musical styles from a very wide geographical and historical spectrum …