RE: Geraldine gets the MBE

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

This is to let you know the good news.  Here is a press release that came out 
today




MBE for the first lady of Jewish Music

The MBE awarded in the Queen's birthday honours list "for services to music" to 
Mrs
Geraldine Auerbach, Director of the Jewish Music Institute is a firm 
endorsement of the
relevance of Jewish music in Britain today.

The Institute was launched earlier this year at the School of Oriental and 
African
Studies (SOAS), University of London. After 16 years of her pioneering work in
Education, Performance and Information as the Director of the Jewish Music 
Heritage
Trust, Geraldine Auerbach welcomed the establishment of the Jewish Music 
Institute at
SOAS as a permanent and fitting home for Jewish music activities in this 
country,
including the establishment of a library and archive.

Mrs Auerbach is also the founder Director of the London International Jewish 
Music
Festival, which started life as the Bnai Brith Festival in 1984. This year she 
has
brought together some of the most popular performers and interpreters of Jewish 
music
from all over the world for the tenth Festival.  The festival is a month long 
and is now
in full swing as part of the British Millennium Festival celebrations (for 
details phone
020 8909 2445 or check the website: www.jmi.org.uk). Mrs Auerbach is also 
organising two
major international conferences on Jewish music: one led by Alexander Knapp, 
the Joe
Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, formerly at City University and now at SOAS, and 
the
other directed by Michael Haas, Executive Producer of the Decca Record Company's
'Entartete Musik' series.

A graduate in Fine Arts, Mrs Auerbach came to Britain in1962 from South Africa. 
She is
married to Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon Ronald Auerbach, and has three grown up
children, all involved in the arts.

Mrs Auerbach, who lives in Harrow said, "I am delighted with the honour and 
wish I could
share it with the devoted and talented people who have supported and worked 
with me over
the last two decades to make Jewish music an important part of British musical 
culture".

For further details and interviews call 020 8909 2445




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