ELEONORE BIEZUNSKI & FRIENDS
About the Event
ELEONORE BIEZUNSKI
Klezmer, Yiddish song and improvisation with:
Eléonore Biezunski • violin and vocals
Christina Crowder • accordion
Lori Goldston • cello
Eleonore Weill • recorders and flutes, piano, vocals, hurdy gurdy
Eléonore Biezunski is an award-winning Parisian singer/violinist now living in NYC. An avid collector of Yiddish music, she co-founded and is a member of Ephemeral Birds, b and Klezmographers and has collaborated with a large number of well-known Jewish performers here and abroad. Her recordings include Yerushe (IEMJ, 2016) and Zol zayn (2014). She won a Bubbe Awards in 2021 for her song "Tshemodan" in the category Best New Yiddish Song. As YIVO’s Sound Archivist, Eléonore has coordinated the Ruth Rubin Legacy website . She is also a member of the Klezmer Institute's KMDMP and Klezmer Archive Project. She has a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has published several academic articles about Yiddish music and Yiddish theater. She is a recipient of a NYSCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship. She appears in several documentary films about Yiddish culture and music.
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