Yiddish Song: Step Forverts 17. Ruth Levin. Polina Shepherd

Описание: Here is the 17th event of the series - the last presentation before we all gather for a final chat on 26 July.
More about the project here: https://www.polinashepherd.co.uk/step...
Yiddish Song: Step Forverts would like to express heartfelt thanks to Boris Sela and his family (Canada) for their generous and caring support.
General sponsor: KlezKanada.
Ruth Levin. Born in Moscow, daughter of Leibu Levin, a well-known Czernowitz born Yiddish actor, singer and composer. The family immigrated to Israel in 1972. Studied with Nechama Lifshitz and Benjamin Zemach. Recepient of the Hersh Segal Prize for Yiddish culture, 1997, 2002. She has performed in concerts and festivals throughout Europe and the USA.
In 2006 she published the Anthology Leibu Levin. Word and Melody: 49 songs to poems by 21 Yiddish poets, with her prologue and biography of the composer.
Among her theatre roles were Mirele in Itzik Manger's Hotzmekh Shpil (1986) and the role of Esterke in Manger's Di Megile (1987); in film a Yiddish singer in To Live Again (2007).
Solo programs: Secret guests (Yiddish poetry in music); Yortsayt (poetry and songs of the Holocaust), A Graceful Willow Tree (Yiddish songs by and about women). Together with Avishai-Alexander Fisz created the Cabaret Du undzer shlimazl, undzer shtern with Itzik Manger's songs, and The Blue Cat Cabaret, with theater and street songs from the 30-s. In 2017, she created the one-woman show Janina and the Beast based on a Sutzkever story, with music by Moti Shmitt.
Editor on Jerusalem Yiddish radio and Radio Yiddish Pour Tous.
She also researched and recorded a collection of poems and songs from the ghettos and concentration camps in Transnistria. Ruth’s Russian dramatic roles are Miriam in Golem by G. Trestman, and Etl in Late Love by V. Mukharyamov (based on the story of Bashevis-Singer). Ruth writes poetry in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian; and translates Yiddish and Hebrew literature. Accompanied by a Alexei Belousov. Awarded by several national and international prizes, he is performing as a soloist and giving master classes throughout Israel, South America, China, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Italy, Swiss and other countries, since 2006 he is the artistic director of “Guitar Gems” - International Classical Guitar Festival & Competition in Netanya, Israel. In the recent years he is the artistic director of L. Luthier Contest - International Classical Guitar Festival & Competition in Bratislava, Slovakia, and of A. Matyaev International Classical Guitar Festival & Youth Competition in Kirov, Russia, and since 2018 г. – also the artistic director of Louis Ignatius Gall International Guitar Festival in Nordhorn, Germany.

Polina Shepherd (Skovoroda) grew up in a Russian Jewish home where songs were frequently sung at celebrations. When living in Tatarstan and studying at the State Academy, she played Russia′s first klezmer band after Perestroika, and toured the world with her own quartet Ashkenazim. Her current work covers vocal music from large scale choirs to duets. Leads four choirs, teaches, performs, collaborates with bands, soloists, ensembles, choirs and bands internationally.
Out now: 150 Voices, a recorded collaboration between Polina, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics Lorin Sklamberg and choirs in the UK and the USA. https://www.polinashepherd.co.uk/cds/...
About 120 compositions including music for theatre shows, large scale choir compositions, settings for Yiddish poems, piano work, and nigunim performed by soloists and choirs all over the world. /www.polinashepherd.co.uk/

Payments are optional but are highly appreciated. General fundraiser for the project:   / 3229041020447493  

For direct payments to the artists, please use PayPal. For Ruth: [email protected]
For Polina: paypal.me/PolinaShepherd

PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Ashkenaz Festival, KlezKanada, Salomo Birnbaum Gesellschaft für Jiddisch e.V., Yiddish Waves, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, Ваад Украина, The Workers Circle, The Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, Jewish Heritage Moldova, Глобальный еврейский онлайн центр Jewish.Ru See less