Workshops YSW 2025

To celebrate our 25th anniversary we’re taking stock of where we are and how we got here, updating and gathering the knowledge and practices we’ve gained over the years, and giving you the chance to catch up on topics you may have missed.

To help make this possible, in addition to our usual 6-hour workshops, we’re also offering self-contained, 3-hour workshops. These cover a wide variety of topics and levels. You can register for one 6-hour workshop or two 3-hour workshops per week, including one 3-hour music workshop and one 3-hour Yiddish language workshop, if you like. 

Please pay close attention to the description of the workshop levels before you register! For instrumentalists we offer self-tests to get a sense of what we mean by “intermediate” and “advanced.”

take a self-test

Please note!
All workshops begin at 10 am the first day and end in the evening of the last day. Please plan your departure for the day after the last workshop day, and please plan your arrival to have enough time to sign in and then begin at 10 am on the first workshop day. Thank you!

Please take a look at the conditions of participation 2025 before signing up!

July 13 - July 20, 2025
Ashkenaz I: Early Yiddish Vocal & Instrumental Music
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | intermediate & advanced
with Dr Diana Matut, Avery Gosfield & Erik Warkenthin

Ashkenaz I: An Introduction to Western Yiddish
(You should know the Yiddish alphabet.)
3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate & advanced
with Dr Diana Matut

The Other Europeans: Moldavian-Yiddish Repertoire & Style
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | advanced
3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate
with Adam Stinga, Marin Bunea & Christian Dawid

The Ottoman Legacy: The Greco-Turkish-Yiddish Matrix
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | intermediate
3 - 6 p.m. | advanced
with Vassilis Ketentzoglou, Tayfun Guttstadt & Alan Bern

 

July 15 - July 20, 2025
Introduction to Yiddish Song: Repertoire & Style
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | introductory
with Esther Wratschko & Anna Vishnevska

General Introduction to Klezmer & Yiddish Music
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | introductory
with Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Zilyin Biret & Anna Lowenstein

July 16 - July 29, 2025 
Yiddish Language Program:
The “Other” Yiddish - Yiddish in the 21st Century
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | all levels
with Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, Mendy Cahan, Eli Benedict & Eidel Malowicki

July 24 - July 31, 2025
Advanced Yiddish Song: Vocal Production, Style & Repertoire
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | advanced
3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate
with Sasha Lurje & Sarah Myerson

New Yiddish Music: The Lerner Moguilevsky Duo
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | intermediate
3 - 6 p.m. | advanced
with César Lerner & Marcelo Moguilevsky

Living Treasures From Old Manuscripts: Tunes from the Kiselgov-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | advanced
3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate
with Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko

New Yiddish Song: Contemporary Repertoire & Yiddish Songwriting
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | intermediate
3 - 6 p.m. | advanced
with Daniel Kahn & Isabel Frey

Yiddish for Musicians: Introduction to Yiddish & Klezmer-loshn
(You should know the Yiddish alphabet.)
3 - 6 p.m. (afternoons only) | introductory
with Janina Wurbs

August 4 - August 9, 2025
Dance Orchestra: Klezmer & Hasidic Repertoire
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate & advanced
with Ilya Shneyveys, Jordan Hirsch, Anna Lowenstein & Simon Roth

The Other Israel: The World of Yair Dalal
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate & advanced
with Yair Dalal

Advanced Introduction to Klezmer & Yiddish Music
for Music Conservatory Students  & Professional Instrumentalists
(by audition only)
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | music conservatory students & professional instrumentalists
with Mark Kovnatskiy & Christian Dawid

August 5 - August 9, 2025
Yiddish Choir: Traditional & Modern Repertoire for Mixed Voices
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | all levels
with Benjy Fox-Rosen & Esther Wratschko

Yiddish Dance for Everyone: Yiddish & Hasidic Dances
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | all levels
with Sarah Myerson & Eli Benedict

Advanced Yiddish Dance: Solo & Group Style
(by instructor’s permission only)
Please note!
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | together with Yiddish Dance for Everyone
3 - 6 p.m. | advanced, meets separately
with Walter Zev Feldman
accompanied by Alan Bern & Zilyin Biret

August 12 - August 16, 2025
Oyf eyn fus (On One Foot): Special Topics in Jewish Thought
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | all levels
with Miriam Camerini

Yiddish String Ensemble: Solo & Ensemble Playing for Bowed String Instruments
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. & 3 - 6 p.m. | intermediate & advanced
with Francesca Ter-Berg & Craig Judelman

Hasidic Music: The World of Eli Benedict
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (mornings only) | intermediate & advanced (instrumentalists), all levels (singers)
with Eli Benedict & Jordan Hirsch

August 14 - August 17, 2025
Youth Klezmer Band in cooperation with the Musikschule "Johann Nepomuk Hummel"
with Hannah Ochner, Ro van Wingerden & Pieter Sint Nicolaas