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Emma Stiman. The native Londoner (living in Cologne since 2005) studied classical clarinet at the Royal College of Music, London and the Birmingham Conservatoire. She has performed as principal clarinetist in the "National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain" and under the baton of the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin in the "Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra".
Emma has participated in various international klezmer workshops, learning from renowned klezmer artists. She now teaches klezmer clarinet, plays for dancing and performs at Yiddish and klezmer music festivals all around Europe. Emma writes original klezmer music and Yiddish songs which have also been recorded and performed by other estimated colleagues.
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Mark Kovnatskiy comes from Moscow, but has been living in Hamburg for several years. He is a well known violinist, composer and jewish dance instructor. He often plays and teaches at klezmer festivals, workshops and events. He is the leader of the Hamburg Klezmer Band (www.myspace.com/hamburgklezmerband), whose repertoire also includes Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian traditional music. He also plays in "Fialke" (Erlangen-Hamburg) "The Merlin Shepherd Kapelye" (international), "All Stars Klezmer
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Ilya Shneyveys is from Riga (Latvia). He's been involved with klezmer music since 2003, taking part in numerous klezmer festivals and workshops all around the world, as well as founding a contemporary Yiddish ensemble Forshpil (www.forshpil.com). Apart from that he also plays accordion, piano, percussion, guitar and wind instruments in different projects and genres, which range from pop music to free improvisation. |