Aktuelles: Masterclass: „Voices from the Ghetto/Stimmen aus dem Ghetto“

Vielberth-Gebäude (VG 1.36)

Zisl Slepovitch introduces and performs songs from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies that he has worked on and that come from known ghettos, concentration camps, nd occupied territories.

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Katelijne Schiltz (Lehrstuhl für Musikwissenschaft), Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller (Professur für slavisch-jüdische Studien) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Zentrum Erinnerungskultur und dem Science Campus „Europe and America in the Modern World“

Die Veranstaltungen sind in englischer Sprache

Die Vortragsorte sind barrierefrei

Eintritt frei

Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States (New York) since 2008. He has earned Ph.D. in musicology at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. His primary research focus is on the traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe. Slepovitch is a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards); a composer, arranger, conductor, a music and Yiddish educator. Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed klezmer collective Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. He has served in multiple performance and creative roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest), Since 2018, he is the Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and in that capacity produced three critically acclaimed records. Among Slepovitch’s numerous theatre, film, and TV credits are the Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway).