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The project starts with world-class concerts by two new bands created specially for "The Other Europeans"; a klezmer octet directed by Alan Bern, and a Roma sextet directed by cymbalom virtuoso Kalman Balogh.
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director of the Weimar Workshops and leader of BRAVE OLD
WORLD, Alan Bern is considered one of the finest
pianists, accordionists and composers in Jewish music
today. He has performed and recorded with the KLEZMER
CONSERVATORY BAND, the KLEZMATICS, Andy Statman, SHIRIM,
KAPELYE, Itzhak Perlman, Seymour Rexite, the SYMRNA
TRIO, PARIS-TO-KIEV, and many others. Bern is also
renowned as a teacher and workshop director, in which
capacities he works regularly at Klezkanada (Montreal),
Klezfest (London), Klezmer Wochen (Weimar) and
elsewhere. His compositions have received awards in the
USA, Europe and Israel. Bern also writes and directs
music for theatre and modern dance. In 2006, he earned a
doctorate degree in Music Composition at the
College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.
A native of Bloomington, Indiana, he lived for many
years in Boston and Brooklyn and has been based in
Berlin since 1987. 
a native
of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, has become involved in
klezmer music only in the last few years. In that short
time, he has played with many of the field's top artists
such as Frank London, Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Hankus
Netsky, Adrienne Cooper, Alicia Svigals, Michael
Winograd, Alex Kontorovich, Daniel Kahn, Aaron Alexander
and the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. He has appeared at the
Krakow Jewish Music Festival, at the Ashkenaz Festival
in Toronto and Klezmer Festival Fürth as well as many
concerts all across the US and Europe. He has taught at
both Klezkamp and Klezkanada. 
saxophonist,
clarinetist, ethnic-woodwind specialist and composer has
made several innovative contributions to the New York
music scene. His background in the fertile and eclectic
milieu of the New England Conservatory of Music’s Third
Stream Program in the early 80’s, and the continued
practice of Balkan, Klezmer and Celtic folk idioms, have
helped shape his esthetic and passion for creating new
and unusual music. He is active as composer-musician in
the Klezmatics, Paradox Trio (His veteran Balkan - Jazz
fusion group, 3 CD's on the Knitting Factory label and
the most recent CD, GAMBIT, on the ENJA label), Ballin’
The Jack (avant-swing septet - 2 CD’s on KF records),
Disastro Totale (with Yuri Lemeshev of Gogol Bordello),
Roberto Rodriguez Septet (Tzadik), FRANK LONDON’S
Klezmer Brass Allstars (Piranah) and his recently formed
Yusef Lateef project and the Recycled Waltz Orchestra.
He has been awarded grants and commissions from the NEA,
Chamber Music America (2005) and is a regular in New
York’s downtown jazz scene.
studied
Western classical music, went on to diverse stylistic
experiences from a capella pop to alpine brass music to
finally specialize in Yiddish instrumental music.
Counting as one of today's leading klezmer clarinetists,
he has performed extensively throughout Eastern and
Western Europe and North America. He has worked with
numerous international artists, among them Boban
Markovic, Frank London, Brave Old World, Socalled,
Theodore Bikel, Lorin Sklamberg, Smyrna Trio,
Strauss/Warschauer Duo, Shura Lipovsky and DJ Yuriy
Gurzhy. He has been teaching at festivals and academies
from Canada to Russia to Japan, such as Yiddish Summer
Weimar, KlezKanada, Klezfest St Petersburg, Klezmer
Paris, Klezkamp, Klezfest London or the Jewish Culture
Festival in Cracow. His latest recordings include two
highly acclaimed CDs, Budowitz: "Live" and Paul Brody's
Sadawi: "For the Moment". Dawid also plays for Khupe and
his newest, widely noticed project, the Ukrainian
hipster family brass band, Konsonans Retro. In between,
he lives in Berlin.
born in
Ukraine, the land which was called 100 years ago the
cradle of klezmer, Stas performed with his “Kharkow
Klezmer Band” and “Kedem” in Europe from Kiew to London
(Klezfest in London, "Donafest", Kalaka Folk festival,
"SKIF Festival", "Jewish festival in Krakov", "Jüdisches
Festival in Fürth", "X-block Barbican Festival",
"Helsinki KLezmer Festival", "Altonale",
"Klezmerwelten"). He teached regularly at “Klezfest St.
Pertersburg” and was a faculty member of "Klezfest in
Kiev", "Kharkov Klezmer Teg" "Klez Kanada",
"Klezmerseminar Wien" and Yiddish Summer Weimar (2006).
Since 2003 Stas lives in Germany.
was born
to musician parents who met on the University of Arizona
marching band and nurtured their son's connection to
Judaism and his eclectic musical tastes. A life long
musician, the multi-talented Rubin is reknown as one of
the America’s most versatile sidemen, adept at a variety
of musical style and traditions. He was the founder of
the seminal American Alt-Folk pioneers The Bad Livers as
well as an in-demand sideman on the Texas honky tonk and
ethnic dancehall scene. He has also produced music for
two major motion pictures, writes regularly for
publication, hosted a popular late night radio program
in Austin for nearly a decade and has produced dozens of
American folk music CD's, including the Grammy nominated
Corason de Piedra for Tex-Mex accordion legend Santiago
Jimenez, Jr. He was recently elected Noble Grand of his
local Odd Fellows Lodge. Mark is an experienced Klezmer
bass and tuba player having played with a virtual
who’s-who of the modern Jewish music scene. He is a
member of Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and
Henry Sapoznik & the Youngers of Zion and has also
worked on the faculty of Klezmer festivals around the
world including KlezKamp, Festival of Jewish Culture in
Kracow, Klez Fest London and many others. 
Described
by fROOTS magazine as “one of the most versatile and
interesting percussionists working in the UK today”
percussionist, dancer and independent record producer,
Guy Schalom has performed in the Middle East, throughout
Europe and North America. Having graduated with a degree
in Popular Music and Recording, Guy is particularly
sought after in the field of Jewish music and is among
the most in-demand klezmer drummers in Europe. It is
however the field of World Music in which Guy is most
well known. He has a busy touring schedule and has
worked with the likes of Frank London, The Klezmatics,
Josh "SoCalled" Dolgin, Michael Alpert, Susan Watts and
David Krakauer. He is a founding member of the
pan-European “Klezmer Alliance” as well Ukrainian
Village Brass Band “Konsonans Retro” featuring Berlin's
Christian Dawid and also runs his own duo:
“Schalom-Bakhshayesh”. 
has
grown up with authentic folk music, but also studied
classical music. He graduated as cimbalom teacher from
the Liszt Academy, Budapest in 1980, studying under
Ferenc Gerencsér. In 1985 he was awarded the Hungarian
distinction of "Young Master of Folk Arts", and two
years later he won second prize in the Aladár Rácz
cimbalom-competition. He plays mostly authentic folk
music from Hungary and from the Balkans, though during
the last years he has played with jazz groups, rock
bands and a symphony orchestra, too. As an artist he has
performed with such Hungarian bands as Jánosi, Ökrös,
Téka, Méta, Muzsikás, Zsarátnok, Vízöntő, Vasmalom, the
Swedish Orient-Express, the Dutch Sultan and Ot Azoj,
the English Transglobal Underground, the American Peter
Ogi and the Joel Rubin Jewish Ensemble. He was musical
director of the "Magneten Gypsy Show" of Andre Heller
and also performed on a CD with the Budapest Festival
Orchestra playing Brahms' Hungarian Dances. In 1997, he
performed with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and
also with the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra.
was born
1969, in a small town at the north of Moldova, named
Donduseni. His father and grandparents were fiddlers.
Marin plays violin from 6 years old and graduated from
Chisinau conservatory in 1997, in the class of Valeriu
Hancu. He played in several bands and performed in many
countries, such as Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey,
Italy, Russia and the Ukraine. His repertoire includes
traditional Romanian music, fiddler's music, classical
music and many traditional pieces of different nations.
At the moment Marin plays in one of the most famous
traditional restaurants from Chisinau, "La Taifas".
born in
1962 in Szolnok, Hungary, is from an all musicians
family. So it was only natural for him to start learning
music at an early age of 6. First he learned piano
playing, but as his father was a double bass player, he
was more interested in the double bass. At the age of 9
he continued his musical studies on double bass. At the
age of 12 he became member of the world famous Rajko
Music Band and School, where he continued both his
general and music studies. After finishing school he
went to play gipsy music in restaurants in Budapest. He
did that for almost 20 years. But something was missing…
was
born 1961 in the village of Poibrene, Pazardzhik
district. Aged 5 only, he played by ear the first folk
tune he heard from his uncle, an amateur musician. His
parents enrolled him into a music school and it was
there that he began from the very first grade, to learn
the secrets of the accordion under the guidance of
Kostadin Milarov. Later he was admitted into the Mihail
Mihailov’s class in Plovdiv. Those were the years which
provided a solid basis that has influenced his overall
growth as musician. In 1977 he was awarded the First
Prize at the Young Musician Competition held in Chirpan
while later on, at the International Competition in
Klingental, Germany, he was acknowledged for his
performance of a Bulgarian piece. 
at the age
of 12 Adrian started playing clarinet in Moldova. In
1999 he performed at an international clarinet meeting
in the Bretonic village Glomel together with cimbalom
player Alex Ciobanu Moldavian music and discovered there
a lot of new facets of clarinet repertoire from all over
the world. Afterwards he enrolled at the national
conservatory of Boulogne-Bilancourt. In Jean-Max
Dussert’s master class Adrian improved his clarinet
playing. He also took part at ambitious courses of
ensemble coaching, workshops for chamber and orchestral
music and theory courses. Today Adrian lives in Paris
and performs regularly East European music at world
music festivals and concerts.
was
born in 1962 in the village Zirnesti, district Cahul. In
1985 he successfully graduated from the Institute of
Arts “Gavriil Muzicescu” from Chisinau. He collaborated
with many orchestras like “Lautarii”, “Busuioc
Moldovenesc”, “Mugurel”, “Joc” and has played many
concerts in countries like Italy, Germany, France,
Ireland, Finland, Swiss, and Latin America, etc. Adam
has recorded two CDs.