H.I.P.S.T.E.R.
HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE SERIES,
TEACHING, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH
When?
Tuesday 9th December 7pm–8pm
Where?
The Hunt Museum - Limerick, Captain's Room
About
THROUGH THE WALLS is an autobiographical musical project by klezmer fiddler and composer Anna Lowenstein. The concert programme invites you into Anna’s childhood home in London's Stamford Hill. Two sound worlds shaped Anna's musical blueprint: through one wall came Hasidic prayer, and through the other, her father's string quartet rehearsals. Anna’s knowledge and experience of traditional Yiddish instrumental music is explored through original melodies and her love for the classical string quartet. The use of storytelling, ethnographic interviews, and field recordings will bring the voices, sounds, and stories of Stamford Hill to life. The performance will feature some of the UK's most celebrated exponents of Klezmer music: violinists Anna Lowenstein & Flora Curzon, Meg Hamilton on viola, and cellist Francesca Ter-Berg. Each member of this string quartet is known for their exceptional skill and dedication to preserving and advancing the rich heritage of Yiddish music and wider Eastern-European folk traditions.
TICKETS €20/€15
Anna Lowenstein is one of the UK’s most sought after performers and teachers of the Klezmer fiddle tradition. Notable appearances have included live sessions on BBC Radion 3’s Music Planet with Grammy Award nominated Yiddish Glory and an onstage role in the highly critically acclaimed production of Indecent alongside Musical Director and Clarinetist Merlin Shepherd. She has gigged, toured and taught across London and the UK, including Cecil Sharp House, Southbank Centre’s Friday Tonic series and The Jazz Cafe , Bridgewater Hall, Sage Gateshead, and multiple tours for the National Rural Touring Forum. She performs widely as part of Klezmer trio Loshn and has made up the faculty on both national and international workshops including Fiddlers On The Move – Belgium, Klezfest – London, KlezNorth – Derbyshire, and Friling Festival - Austria. Her debut album, Through The Walls, was supported and funded by Arts Council England; Love Music, Help Musicians UK; and Asylum Arts, a global network for Jewish culture. Anna recently completed her studies on the MA Music Therapy programme at the University of Limerick.
www.annalowenstein.com (Photo credit: Rah Perherbridge)