Get ready for the 23rd annual KlezmerQuerque
March 7, 8 & 9, 2025
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
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KlezmerQuerque is an internationally recognized annual festival of klezmer music and dance. Join Cantor Beth Cohen and guest artist Zisl Slepovitch for three days of Klezmer, Yiddishkeit and traditional Jewish music, Yiddish songs, dance, concerts, Shabbat services, and hands-on workshops. Dance artist to be announced soon.
Zisl Slepovitch
D. Zisl Slepovitch (composer, woodwinds, sound design) is a native of Minsk, Belarus, a New Yorker since 2008. He is a Jewish music scholar (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music), composer, a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals); a music and Yiddish educator. Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed groups Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble, a regular contributor to the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, a Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, a pianist and music coordinator at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. Slepovitch’s credits include “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). @zislepovitch • https://zislepovitch.com