Activities
organized by
A.M.J. (les Amis de la Musique Juive) are open to
everybody.
Members benefit of a discount price.
Up to now
A.M.J. has already
organised the following events and many more are under way:
- A journey in Yiddishland :
ENSEMBLE VARIANTE - YIDDISH SUITE
sunday 27 november at 6PM - Conservatoire de Musique, Place Neuve - Genève
an original repertoire : Norbert Glanzberg, Julius Wolfsohn, Erwin
Schulhoff, Lev Kogan,
played by Ensemble Variante : Julie Fortier : piano - Christoph Sturzenegger : piano, cor - Natalya
Neykova-Vincent : flûte - commentaries by Judith Markish
- A journey in Yiddishland :
EFIM CHORNY's KAPELYE - Yiddish Songs
sunday 13 november at 5 PM - théâtre de la Cité-Bleue - Genève
Efim Chorny & Susan Ghergus (Kishinev, Moldavie) with Georg Brinkmann, clarinet - Vanessa Vromans, violin
- A journey in Yiddishland :
FROM THE GHETTO TO THE MILONGA - Yiddish Musics from Argentina
sunday 25 september at 6 PM - salle des Abeilles - Genève
Eduardo Kohan : saxophones - Jean Ferrarini : piano - Nicolas Enrich : bandoneon
- Fête de la Musique
stage on the Agrippas
d'Aubigné terrasse
in collaboration with the Ville de Genève
continued musical programmation... and dance floor
saturday 18 and sunday 19 june
2011
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- STEMPENYU'S NESHOME with Steven Greenman
sunday 13 march at 7PM - salle de l'Alhambra - Genève
original klezmer music
- In Memoriam - HAÏM à la lumière d'un violon
with the Cie C(h)aractères of Paris - presentation
sunday 6 february at 5PM - salle de la Cité-Bleue - Genève
musical-theatrical show after the life of Haïm Lipsky, survivor of the concentration hell
- In Memoriam - musiques assassinées, a project by Mrs. Rachel Székely
with many genevian musicians and Mrs. Magali Dami director of the CPM masterchoir
sunday 21 november at 5PM - salle des Abeilles - Genève
concert in memory of the musicians victims in the Shoah
- Yiddish Dances at St-George
with the Klezpedz orchestra and Michel Borzykowski
sunday 14 november from 2PM to 7PM
- In Memoriam - mélodies exilées, a project by Mrs Rachel Székely
with the company Joy of music, Paul Hess - piano, Richard Cole - musicologist
sunday november 7th at 5PM - salle des Abeilles - Genève
lecture-concert in memory of the musicans forced to exile
- In Memoriam - Tansman et les autres...
with the musical ensemble Blumina from Berlin, trio oboe, bassoon, piano
sunday 10 october at 5PM - salle de la Bourse - Genève
compositions of Tansman, Vaynberg, Previn
- Trio Eleonore : concert-presentation of the new CD
Glinka - Farrenc - Stutschewsky - Rota - Piazzolla
sunday 3 october 2010 - 5PM
- Fête de la Musique
stage and stall on the Agrippas
d'Aubigné terrasse
in collaboration with the Ville de Genève
continued musical programmation... and delicatessen
partnership with "Encre Fraîche"
friday 18th
saturday 19 and sunday 20 june
2010 from noon to midnight
- PRINTEMPS SEFARADE : Shira U'Tfila
sefardic songs of the Balkans
sunday 25 april 2010 - 6PM
- PRINTEMPS SEFARADE : Yasmin Levy - Sentir
sefardic songs and flamenco
sunday 18 april 2010 - 6PM
- PRINTEMPS SEFARADE : Palavrikas de Amor
musics and songs from sefarad and the orient
sunday 14 march 2010 - 6PM
- PRINTEMPS SEFARADE : Ensemble Naguila with Sandra Bessis
sefardic songs and musics of the Maghreb ...from Granada to Istanbul
sunday 7 march 2010 at 6PM
- Kol ha'Neshama : Me La Amargates Tu
Me La Amargates Tu - songs from the sefardic communities
sunday 29 november 2009 at 5PM
- Kol ha'Neshama : Ayn Neue Lid
Lucidarium - when yiddish was young
sunday 22 november 2009 at 5PM
- Kol ha'Neshama : Khagiga Yehudit
Le Tendre Amour - music for feasts and celebrations
sunday 15 november 2009 at 5PM
- Support to the Klezmer Workshop "MusiJeunes"
with the musical ensemble Hotegezugt
saturday 7 and sunday 8 november
centre paroissial St.-François at Chêne-Bourg - Geneva
- Fête
de la Musique
stage and stall on the Agrippas
d'Aubigné terrasse
in collaboration with the Ville de Genève
continued musical programmation... and delicatessen
partnership with "Encre Fraîche"
friday 19th
saturday 20 and sunday 21 june
2009 from noon to midnight
- Le Temps de Chanter... au centre de l'Europe
Liturgical music from Hungary with khazanim Laslo Fekete, Emil Toth and the Goldmark choir (Budapest)
sunday 29 march 2009 at 5PM
- Le Temps de Chanter... du Nord au Sud
Liturgical music from Europe and North Africa with khazan Jacob Toledano (Geneva)
sunday 15 march 2009 at 5PM
- Le Temps de Chanter... de l'Orient à l'Occident
Liturgical music from sefaradim with khazanim Daniel Halfon and Moshe Khabusha (Jerusalem)
sunday 8 march 2009 at 5PM
- KHUPE : duo
klezmer de Berlin
Sanne Möricke :
accordéon - Christian Dawid : clarinettes
dimanche 2 novembre 2008
à 17h
- EL-BAZE sings
the Mediterranea
with her
surprising quintett
sefaradic songs in a jazzy et atmosphere
sunday 21 september 2008 at 5 PM
- Fête
de la Musique
stage and stall on the Agrippas
d'Aubigné terrasse
in collaboration with the Ville de Genève
continued musical programmation... and delicatessen
saturday 21 & sunday 22
june 2008 from noon to midnight
- The Sound
& Light Cinematic-Duo
Ciné-concert
evening with Merlin and Polina Shepherd who
accompany (clarinet + piano) a rare selection of silent russian films
from the beginning of the century
Aula des
Colombières - Versoix
sunday 8 june 2008 at 5:30PM
- Tribute
to Mieczyslaw WEINBERG
AMJ's russian cycle - 5th concert : tribute
to Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Elisaveta Blumina
- piano, Emil Rovner - cello and voice
works from Bloch, Weinberg, Ravel
Salle Robert Dunand
- 9 rue du Marché - Carouge
sunday 16 march 2008 at
5PM
- YIDDISH TANGO
lecture of Lloica Czackis at
11AM
followed by the concert of the "Tangele"
ensemble, featuring :
Lloica Czackis - voice, Juan Lucas Aisemberg - violin, Ivo De Greef -
piano
Salle de la
Cité-Bleue - 46 av. de Miremont - Genève
sunday 24 february 2008 at 5PM
- Jerusalem
Musical Trio
klezmer music "made in Israel"
Conservatoire de
Musique - Place Neuve
sunday 4 november
2007 at 5P
- La Istoria De
Purim by the ensemble Lucidarium
music and poetry of the Jews
during the Renaissance in Italy
salle de Saint-Gervais,
Genève
sunday 7 october 2007 at 5PM
- Trio ELEONORE
presentation of the brand new CD with musical examples
works of Stutschewski, Bruch, Juon -
Conservatoire de Musique - Place Neuve
sunday 30 september 2007 at 5PM
- Geneva Music Festival 2007,
stall and stage, live music programme, June 2007 - GENEVA
- "Yiddish
Dances Workshop",
direction : Mr. Steve Weintraub,
musical accompagnement of the ensemble "Mentsh" : Samuel Maquin
(clarinet) and Alexis Kune (accordion)
Centre de Musique - Grand-Lancy
saturday 24 and sunday 25 march 2007
- "Shabes
Blues, fragments of memory", and the jewsih composers of
Broadway
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
(original
creation from Yves Cerf, world
première)
Gilles Landini, Vincent Baroni, Yves Cerf, Michel Borzykowski &
the Brass Ensemble of Neuchâtel
Conservatoire de Musique - Geneva
sunday 3 december 2006 at 5PM
- "Chamber
Music": jewish composers and
themes
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
with the sextuor
: Gábor Barta - Anne Chollet - Thomas Friedli - Mi-Kyung Kim
- Paul Urstein - Andrea Zardini,
works from Alexander Krein, Mikhail-Fabianovitch Gnessin, Serge
Prokofiev, Krzysztof Penderecki.
Conservatoire de Musique - Geneva
sunday 26 november 2006 at 5PM
- "Klezmer
Night"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
with three
"Kapelye" to cross the night
Yankele (France), Mentsh (France), Hotegezugt (Geneva)
Salle Ernest Ansermet - Geneva
saturday 25 november 2006 starts at 8PM
- "Songs of the
Jewish People"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
by Sylvie
Sivann and her musicians (France)
Salle Frank-Martin - Geneva
sunday 19 november 2006 at 5PM
- "Klezmer Madness"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
by David
Krakauer Klezmer Madness, special guest : DJ SoCalled (USA, Canada)
Salle Frank-Martin - Geneva
saturday 18 november 2006 at 8PM
- "Jewish stories"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
"Zlateh the goat" (I.B. Singer) by Rose Bacot (story telling
and clarinet)
"Otto, autobiographie
d'un ours en peluche" (Tomi Ungerer)
by Compagnie
deux temps trois mouvements
Salle Robert Dunand - Carouge
sunday 12 november 2006 at 5PM
- "Three cultures concert"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
by the
Tohu ve'Bohu music ensemble
Salle Ernest Ansermet - Geneva
saturday 11 november 2006 at 8PM
- "Sefaradic
tradition and liturgy"
NIGUNIM Festival 10 years of AMJ
"Sefaradic
tradition" and liturgy :
by cantor Alberto Mizrahi, Gerard Edery and his musical
ensemble
Salle du
Conservatoire de Musique - Geneva
sunday 5 november 2006 at 5PM
- Geneva Music Festival
2006 :
stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2005 - GENEVA
- "The Sound & Light
Cinematic Duo"
Ciné-concert evening with Merlin and Polina
Shepherd who
accompany a rare selection of silent films from Ukraine and Russia
may 21st 2006 at 6 PM - VERSOIX
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- "Klezmer,
the long journey of a jewish music"
lecture (french) with musical examples by M. Michel
Borzykowski
vice-president of AMJ association
december 7th 2005 at 8 PM - Records library of Vieusseux - GENEVA
- Concert
KLEZMER EN
BUENOS AIRES
Cesar Lerner & Marcelo Moguilevski ensemble,
special guests from Argentina
december 4th 2005 at 5 PM - Alhambra - GENEVA
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- Concert
HOTEGEZUGT with special guest
Hélène ENGEL
yiddish songs and klezmer music between tradition and
renewal
november 6th 2005 at 5 PM - Cité Bleue - GENEVA
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- Duet
piano-cello : ...Like A Dew...
with Gilles LANDINI & Luc AESCHLIMANN
September 18th 2005 at 6 PM - Centre Musical Robert Dunand - CAROUGE
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- Geneva Music Festival
2005 :
stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2005 - GENEVA
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- ENTRE DEUX RIVES... (Between two shores) :
songs and music of the judeo-spanish tradition :
Sandra BESSIS - Jean-Luc LENOIR - Rachid BRAHIM-DJELLOUL
May 8th 2005 - Salle de la Cité-Bleue - GENEVA
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- YIZKOR : compositions
of Ben Haim, Schulhoff, Amzallag and Prokofiev :
duo Elisaveta Blumina, piano -
Moshe A. Epstein, flute
April 10th 2005 - Centre Musical Robert Dunand - CAROUGE
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- ELEONORE : A pluricultural trio... for an
original and creative repertoire
for health reasons Mrs Kolodny has been replaced by Mr. Friedli
march 6th 2005 - Centre Musical Robert Dunand - CAROUGE
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- IMAGO : Improvisations on oriental
colours shade off...
february 20th 2005 at 5PM - Salle de la Cité-Bleue - GENEVA
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- Marc Amouyal Ensemble
: Music and songs of
sefaradic tradition
30 janvier 2005 - Salle de la Cité-Bleue - GENEVA
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- KLEJ'ZEMA : klezmer music concert
traditionnal music and dances of the central european jewish
communities.
5 décembre 2004, Salle de la Cité-Bleue - GENEVA
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- "Caprice
hébraïque" duo Alexander Oratovski, cello
- Irina Kossenko, piano
4th concert of AMJ's Russian Serie
November 21 2004 at 5PM- Centre Musical Robert Dunand - CAROUGE
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- JAZZ MEETS EAST MEETS
JAZZ : with Omri Hason quartet
Jazz concert discovering oriental tradition.
31 october 2004, Salle de la Cité-Bleue, 46 avenue de
Miremont - GENEVA
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- Chamber
Music Concert : (supported by AMJ)
benefit to Beit Kham association dir. M. Cohen-Solal
(integration of young palestinians and israelis through artistic
projects)
Sébastien RISLER, piano - Dan DERY, violin
3 october 2004 at 5PM - CIG 10 rue Saint-Léger - GENEVA
- Geneva Music Festival
2004 : stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2004 - GENEVA
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- Concert Julia Weissmann
- violin / Boris Gurevich - piano
3rd concert of AMJ's Russian Serie
works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke et Moshe Vainberg
May 16th 2004 at 5PM, Centre Musical Robert
Dunand, 9 rue du Marché - CAROUGE
- Piano concert by Marija
MRKIC-AUPY
works of G. Ligeti, A. Schönfeld, A. Rubinstein,
P. Ben-Haim, G. Gershwin
April 25th 2004 at 5PM, Centre Musical Robert
Dunand, 9 rue du Marché - CAROUGE
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- Concert Yoel CANTORI - cello /
Simon PEGUIRON - piano
works of L. Boccherini, A. Schnittke, N. Sheriff, D.
Shostakovich
April 4th 2004 at 5PM, Centre Musical Robert
Dunand, 9 rue du Marché - CAROUGE
- "Accross Boundaries"
2nd concert of AMJ's Russian Serie
Piano concert and lecture by Jascha NEMTSOV about the "New Jewish
School of Music in Russia"
works of A. Krejn, A.Lourié, J.Stutschewsky, A. Weprik, J.
Wolfsohn
March 14th 2004 at 5PM, Salle des Abeilles, 2
rue de l'Athénée - GENEVA
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- Witness from Warsaw
"Thoughts upon the tradition and the culture of eastern
jews" : chat with Mr. Henri WERMUS
March 3rd 2004 at 7:45PM,
Librairie-Café "Chez Francis" 98 rue de Carouge - GENEVA
- Duo Zawodnik - Tzaneva
Concert of chamber music with an outstanding repertoire
Béatrice ZAWODNIK : oboe and piano - Meglena TZANEVA : piano
February 22nd 2004 1t 5PM, Centre Musical Robert
Dunand, CAROUGE
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- Baith Jaffe Klezmer
Orchestra
Exception Concert for the 10th
birthday of the musical ensemble
February 1st 2004 at 5PM, Cité-Bleue,
1206 GENEVA
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- Tohu
ve'Bohu
Inter-cultural concert : Renaissance
ensemble, Nomades ensemble, Hotegeklezt
ensemble
January 25th 2004, "Le Galpon" theatre, boulevard Saint-Georges -
GENEVA
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- Workshop of Yiddish
Dances
Leader : Khayele
DOMERGUE-ZILBERBERG
January 18th 2004 from 10AM to 5:30PM
Centre Musical du Grand-Lancy - Geneva
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- KLEZMER
Music from origins to nowadays
Lecture by Michel BORZYKOWSKI
with musical examples
on december 2nd 2003, collaboration with Art-Club
Room on upper floor of the "Brasserie Victoria", Geneva
- Yiddish Songs, Music of
Love and Joy : by Deborah STRAUSS and Jeff
WARSCHAUER
November 30th 2003, Salle de la Cité
Bleue - Geneva
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- The Cinnamon and the
Caraway : Wander songs of the yiddish
and sefardic traditions by :
Hélène ENGEL, Jacques GROBER, Pierre Benichou and
Misha Nisimov
Sunday October 26th 2003,
Théâtre Pitoëff - Geneva
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- Music Festival 2003 stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2003
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- KHEVRISA : Under the
Canopy of Heaven... a Traditionnal Jewish Wedding
Klezmer music concert, presenting a jewish wedding in the 19th
century
Sunday June 8th 2003 at 8PM - Salle de la
Cité-Bleue - Geneva
- Yiddish Dances workshop with Mrs. Khayele
Domergue-Zilberberg
Sunday May 25th 2003 - Salle de ballet de l'ERA
- Geneva
- Hommage to Darius
Milhaud by the "Quintette à
vent de Geneva"
Sunday May 18th 2003 - Centre Musical Robert
Dunand - Carouge
- Two Lectures given by
Mr. Frans C. Lemaire,
musicologist, author of the book:
"Le destin juif et la musique, 3000 ans d'histoire" (Fayard 2001)
ASPECTS CONNUS ET MOINS CONNUS DE LA MUSIQUE JUIVE
May 4th 2003 at 5 PM - Geneva Music
Conservatory, room 20 - Place neuve
MUSIQUE RELIGIEUSE, ENTRE JUDAISME ET ANTIJUDAISME
May 11th 2003 at 5 PM - Geneva Music
Conservatory, room 20 - Place neuve
- "ALKAN, BLOCH,
SHOSTAKOVICH"
Rachel FEHR (piano) & Martin MÜLLER-WEIFFENBACH (cello)
Centre Musical Robert Dunand - Carouge - Sunday March 9th
2003
- "Songs and Music from
the Spain of three Faiths"
Gerard EDERY (voice and guitar) & George MGRDICHIAN (oud)
Cité Bleue - Geneva - Sunday March 2nd
2003
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- Trio ATHENA :
Anat Kolodny (clarinet); Mi-Kyung Kim (cello); Kiyoko Ichishima (piano)
compositions by Y. Engel, A. von Zemlinsky and F. Mendelssohn
Centre Musical Robert Dunand - Carouge - January 26th
2003
- Jewish
composers of the 20th century with Marija
MRKIC-AUPY november 17th 2002
- Mikhaïl
Fabianovitch GNESSIN : Concert Between Times
1st concert of AMJ's Russian Serie
Conservatoire de Musique de Geneva - Sunday November 3rd
2002 at 5PM
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- AMOUR-EXIL : Sefardic songs and musics
Centre Musical ERA - Sunday October 6th 2002 at
5PM
- Music Festival 2002 stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2002
- "Geboyren
in a seyden hemdl"
Concert against forgotten, yiddish songs by Nizza THOBI
Cité-Bleue, Champel - Geneva - Tuesday May 28th 2002 at 8PM
- Lecture of professor
Ytzhak Niborski - Paris :
"Le Yiddish: véhicule d'une
culture ancienne mais vivanteá"
Uni Dufour Geneva - monday march 5th 2002 (CD available)
- YANKELE : Exceptionnal klezmer quintet
from Paris
- TRIO KOLODNY : Max Bruch et Joachim
Stutschewsky
- TALILA : A lidl fun'm
shtetl final concert of the "Fureur de
Lire" litterature week, september 2001
- Music Festival 2001 stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2001 (atmosphere 1 et 2)
- The Psalms, a jewish
and christian tradition choral concert with three
choirs, march 2001
- The Two Souls of
Salomone Rossi judéo-baroque
concert, july 2000
- Music Festival 2000 stall and stage, live music
programme, June 2000
- Katia
Larvego and Christian Deloraine : Songs
of the Hebrews april 2000
- Concluding
concert of the " Fureur de Lire ": Salomon
Klezmer in swing october 1999
- Music Festival 1999 stall and
stage, live music programme, June 1999
- Klezmer-workshop 1999, from 27 janvier, every second
Wednesday evening.
- Klezmer music week-end for the "Voices of the World"
programme, Le Galpon Theatre, Geneva, November 1998
- Music Festival 1998 in Geneva, stall and stage,
live music programme, June 1998
- In relation
with an exhibition of sculptures by Peter Diener,
Concert of music composed at the Terezin concentration camp
and poetry readings, Encore Trio, June 16 to 27, 1998, Espace
Très Classic, Geneva
- Klezmer
music workshop with Salomon
Klezmorim, May 3rd, 1998
- Festival of Jewish
Traditional Music, 2nd to 5th May, 1998
- Lyric concert, works by Milhaud and Mahler,
following the General Assembly of the association, November 30, 1997
- Participation
in the Music Festival 1997 in Geneva, stall and stage with
a live music programme (in collaboration with the city of Geneva books
and records libraries), June 1997
- "Musical"
cocktail party, enabling the members of the association to
meet, May 1997
- Concert of Jewish
classical and liturgical music (Ashkenazi and
Sephardic), January 1997
- Lecture
on the history of Jewish music with live music examples by Mr
Henri Milstein, musicologist, September 1996
- Three
concerts given by the Dutch duo Salomon Klezmorim,
July 1996
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