Steven Greenman & Pete Rushefsky Klezmer Concert at Ithaca College March 4

[Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>]

"Di Tsvey" ("The Duo")
Steven Greenman, violin and 
Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl (cimbalom/hammered dulcimer)

Thursday, March 4, 8:15 PM

Ford Hall-- Whalen Center

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Visiting guest recital by world-renowned klezmer violinist Steven Greenman and 
tsimbl (cimbalom / hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky playing a program 
of original and rarely heard klezmer pieces.  

STEVEN GREENMAN

Violinist



Recognized internationally as one of the finest practitioners of traditional 
East European Jewish Klezmer violin, Steven Greenman is a seasoned performer of 
"Klezmer" music as well as a serious composer of traditional Klezmer music, a 
teacher, musical arranger and lecturer. His current project, "The Dream of 
Stempenyu" involves a CD recording of his own original Jewish and Klezmer 
violin compositions, a series of concerts of the music and a future publication 
of the material. One of the first American born klezmer violinists to create a 
program and performance style based entirely on the repertoire of European 
Klezmer violin music, Steven co-founded the Khevrisa ensemble together with the 
cimbalist, Walter Zev Feldman in 1998. Steven has performed internationally 
with Khevrisa and other notable klezmer ensembles such as the Klezmatics, 
Budowitz, the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and Kapelye. His own ensemble, the 
Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble is dedicated to performing his own
 compositions and the transitional Jewish/Moldavian Klezmer repertoire. 

As a teacher of Klezmer music Steven received a grant to be the first recipient 
of the Louis E. Emsheimer Memorial Artist in Residence Program in Cleveland, 
Ohio (2002) for which he lead Klezmer workshops for classical string players 
and lectured on Klezmer music. He has taught Klezmer violin and led string 
ensembles at the KlezKanada festival, Living Traditions? KlezKamp, and KlezFest 
London. Working with educators Mitchell Korn and Amy McClellan of the Cleveland 
Orchestra educational department?s "Learning Through Music" program Steven was 
selected as a "Teaching Artist" and developed a children?s program combining 
story telling and klezmer music.

Steven has collaborated with New York dancer/choreographer David Dorfman and 
the Cleveland State Dance ensemble as musical director in Dorfman?s "Moving 
Histories", a modern dance piece dealing with Jewish identity, and performed 
with members of the Klezmatics in their 1997 performance of Tony Kushner?s 
adaptation of S. Ansky?s "Dybbuk." Steven has lectured and performed at the 
Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland and has been a regular performer with 
various ensembles at Toronto?s Ashkenaz-A Festival of New Yiddish Culture.

In addition to his involvement with Klezmer music Steven is an accomplished 
performer of urban Gypsy violin styles, in particular, Hungarian "Nota", 
Romanian "Lautari" music and Slovak folk music. Steven has devoted his life to 
the study of these styles learning East-European violin style and ornamentation 
from professional Gypsy and folk musicians from Slovakia, Romania, the Ukraine 
and Hungary in addition to transcribing and arranging hundreds of tunes. As a 
concert soloist, Steven has been a regular guest soloist with the Cleveland 
Pops Orchestra performing his own arrangements of traditional East European 
Gypsy violin music. Steven will be featured on a forthcoming CD of urban 
Romanian Gypsy violin music together with the cimbalist, Alexander Fedoriouk. 
As a classical violinist Steven received both his Bachelor of Music and Master 
of Music degrees in Violin Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music 
studying with Linda Sharon Cerone, Dr. Eugene Gratovich and the late
 Bernhard Goldshmidt. Steven has also performed as a member of the Canton and 
Akron Symphony Orchestras and has participated in the National Repertory 
Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute and the American Institute of 
Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

Steven is lead performer, producer and the composer of the music of his 
upcoming Klezmer violin CD project, "The Dream of Stempenyu". Together with 
Walter Zev Feldman, Steven co-produced and is featured on the recording 
Khevrisa-European Klezmer Music on the Smithsonian Folkways label. Steven is 
also featured on the following recordings: Budowitz? "Mother Tongue"; as 
violinist and musical producer/arranger with Yiddish vocalist Lori Cahan-Simon 
with "Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me" (Vol. 1) and lead violinist on 
"Vessel of Song-The Music of Mikhl Gelbart". In addition Steven has recorded 
with Alicia Svigals and with "The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band".



PETE RUSHEFSKY

Tsimblist

 


Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or Jewish 
hammered dulcimer. He performs with some of the finest practitioners of 
traditional Yiddish and klezmer music including Steven Greenman, Rebecca 
Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. He won much critical acclaim for his CD 
with violinist Elie Rosenblatt entitled "Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for 
Hammered Dulcimer & Violin" (Hatikvah Music) and he appears with Michael Alpert 
and Deborah Strauss on Yiddish poet/songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's CD 
"Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City" (Yiddishland Records). 
His upcoming Yiddishland Records release with Rebecca Kaplan is entitled "Oyf 
di vegelekh / On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl."  Pete is also the 
author of a pioneering instructional book on adapting the American 5-string 
banjo for klezmer.



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