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Maestro of Judeo-Arabic music: a tribute to Maurice El Médioni - Harif Tuesday 3 September, 7:30 pm UK, 9:30 pm Israel. Maurice El Médioni, who died in Israel in March 2024 aged 95, is widely regarded as the godfather of Algerian pop […]

Concert: Heroes of Yiddish Song and the Klezfest Allstars

Wednesday 21st August

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JMI Summer Concert 24: Klezfest & Golden Peacock Together https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/jmi-summer-concert-24-klezfest-golden-peacock

Heroes of Yiddish Song and Klezmer, live in London! 21st August

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JMI SUMMER CONCERT 24: KLEZFEST & GOLDEN PEACOCK - Jewish Music Institute An evening of klezmer and Yiddish superstars, showcasing the international musicians from this year’s JMI’s Klezmer & Yiddish summer school.

Book now for Golden Peacock - Sing in Yiddish
18-23 August, London
Book here: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/golden-peacock-24-sing-yiddish/

Featuring the one and only Zalmen Mlotek

Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (nytf.org ), the longest continuous running Yiddish theatre in the world. He is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. His vision as the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene brought the award-winning and critically acclaimed Fidler Afn Dakh (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish), directed by Joel Grey, to New York, for which he served as musical director and conductor. He is the co-creator of Those Were The Days, the first bilingual musical on Broadway, nominated for two Tony awards as well as the Drama Desk nominated On Second Avenue, and the Drama Desk nominated The Golden Land, which toured under the sponsorship of Leonard Bernstein, one of Mlotek’s most notable mentors. Mlotek’s devotion to restoring Yiddish vibrancy launched classics including the world premiere of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl in Yiddish, the Yiddish version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance Di Yam Gazlonim, and the 1923 Rumshinsky operetta, The Golden Bride. Mlotek helped revive Yiddish classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading creative artists of television, theatre and film, such as Itzhak Perlman, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Harnick, Theo Bikel, Ron Rifkin, and Joel Grey, to the Yiddish stage. Mlotek is a sought after collaborator for many recordings, arrangements and projects in concert, television and film, including consulting for PBS’ The Thomashefskys by Michael Tilkson-Thomas His recent musical, Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent), was a collaboration with his son Avram, featuring songs created in the ghetto camps and cabarets of World War II, many from his mother’s collection, We Are Here, the first ever English translated collection of Yiddish Holocaust songs.

One week to go!
Book now for The Big Mix at JW3
Thursday 27th June

The Big Mix 2024: Kadialy Kouyate & Josh Middleton | Noga Ritter Quartet https://www.jw3.org.uk/jmi-big-mix

Don’t miss our next concert in memory of Victor Tunkel and marking the transfer of his Jewish Music Collection to Leo Beack College.

Under the musical direction of Benjamin Wolf and accompanied by Franklyn Gellnick, we will be joined by soloists Eliot Alderman, Graeme Alexander and Adrian Alexander.

📅: Sunday 30 June
⏰: 7.30pm
📍: Belsize Square Synagogue
🎟️: https://www.zemelchoir.org/victortunkel

Celebrate the music of 21st-century London at Jewish Music Institute's Big Mix this summer! Go on an intercultural journey of kora & klezmer with accordionist Josh Middleton, kora player Kadialy Kouyate, singer Noga Ritter and more.

🗓️27 June🕖7pm📍JW3

🎟jmi.org.uk/event/the-big-mix2024

The JMI Team and Trustees wish all our supporters, friends and subscribers a very Happy Passover.
חג פסח שמח / a zisn peysekh

One man’s vast collection of Jewish music manuscripts is open to the public for the first time Victor Tunkel amassed a huge collection of Jewish liturgical manuscripts

Obituary: Maurice El Médioni (1928-2024) | Songlines A key artist in the development of Algerian chaabi and rai music, Maurice El Médioni, the boogie-woogie maestro, has passed away

Book Now for the JMI Summer Schools in Yiddish, Yiddish Song and Klezmer. THREE courses to choose from in only ONE week.

Come join the UK's best, longest running, total immersion in Yiddishkeit.

Ot Azoy 24 - Learn Yiddish!, Golden Peacock - Sing in Yiddish & Klezfest 24 - Learn, Play, Perform Klezmer

Sunday 18th to Friday 23rd August
https://www.jmi.org.uk/events

Baruch Dayan Emet

This weekend the JMI Youth Big Band led by Sam Eastmond goes on the road for the first time! JMI is delighted to collaborate with Create Music for a joint workshop and performance day at Lewes Performing Arts Centre on Sunday 25 February. The first of many exciting adventures outside of London for the band...

On Sunday 25 February Create Music students will be taking part in a Big Band workshop, led by Sam Eastmond, a prominent composer and jazz musician.

Come along at 3pm for a performance by musicians from Jewish Music Institute Youth Big Band with Create Music students, to show what they have learned throughout the day!

🎤YALLAH

🎼Explore joy & sorrow in Judeo-Arabic music & ritual at Jewish Music Institute's conference, ft. presented papers from international academics, sound studies, gender studies & a performance by DJ Sharouh.
Book now!

🗓️11 Feb📍SOAS University of London🕐9.30am-6pm
🎟jmi.org.uk

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Yallah 2024 – Judeo-Arabic Music Conference begins in less than 1 month.

We are proud to partner with Sephardi Voices UK, here is the presentation that JMI screened for the JMI Online Yallah series in May 2020.

Dr Bea Lewkowicz and Daisy Abboudi present the work of Sephardi Voices UK followed by an interview with the recently departed eminent Iraqi Ethnomusicologist Yehezkel Kojaman.

Sephardi Voices: Yehezkel Kojaman From JMI's Yallah - Judeo-Arabic Music Conference