Chamber Music Concert Featuring the Work of Joachim Stutchewsky

Music at a Jewish Crossroads:
Joachim Stutschewsky and the Music of His World
Including a premiere by Ofer Ben-Amots

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 6:00pm (6pm Pre-Concert Lecture, 7pm Concert)

Where: YIVO at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011)

Tickets: $15 General Admission, $10 for YIVO Members and Students

Reservations Available at: yivo.org/stutschewsky

(New York, NY) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Joachim Stutschewsky and the Music of His World, a concert featuring Julian Schwartz, Marika Bournaki, Avi Nagin, and Alec Manasse performing a variety of chamber music by Stutschewsky and composers of his coterie both in Russia and in Israel, as well as a new composition by Ofer Ben-Amots commissioned by YIVO for this concert.

Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982) was a composer, cellist, musicologist, and folklorist born in Romni, Ukraine in 1891 to a well-known family of klezmorim. Involved in both Jewish music as well as avant-garde classical music, Stutschewsky was one of the founding members of the Kolisch Quartet, which premiered important works of Arnold Schoenberg, as well as an avid supporter and composer of classical music infused with Jewish folk music. After studies in Zürich and years in Vienna, Stutschewsky moved to pre-state Israel in 1938 where he taught cello, performed, lectured, and championed the music of Israeli composers.

YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, Neil W. Levin, will deliver a pre-concert lecture on Joachim Stutschewsky’s life and work and his artistic milieu. This concert is part of the Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series and is made possible by a generous gift from the Estate of Sidney Krum. It is co-sponored by American Society for Jewish Music.

About YIVO

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