Rubinstein Klezmer Project

“Music across borders...”

Thomas Yehuda marTincevic KolonomosThomas Yehuda Martincevic Kolonomos, started as a pianist, later to expand to all keyboards, includ-ing the classical organ, at Norges Musikkhøyskole in Oslo. He is also a conductor and creative leader of several choirs in Norway and Bosnia and Herce-govina. Kolonomos has given numerous concerts and been recorded in Italy, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Germany, Spain, England and all the Scandinavian countries.

Ya´aKov rubinsTein Ya’akov Rubinstein, the Israeli violinist, former first concertmaster of the German “Bamberg Symphony Orchestra”, has played as a soloist and concertmas-ter with the finest orchestras all over the world (the Bamberg Symphoniker, Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich, Radio Orchestra Hannover, Oslo Opera, Madrid Opera, Valencia New Opera, Super World Or-chestra Japan, Israel Chamber Orchestra Tel Aviv, the Jerusalem Camerata, Haifa Symphony Orchestra and many others). He has played with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Herbert Blomstedt, Alan Gilbert, Cristoph Eschenbach, with soloists such as Lang Lang, Midori, Sarah Chang, Victoria Mullova, Mstis-lav Rostropovitch, Ivo Pogorelic, and with the Three Tenors, Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras.

...an Israeli, a Jewish Croat and a Bosnian Muslim meet...

The rubinsTein Klezmer projecT

This could be the beginning of a joke or, in the worst case, a war declaration...Well, thank God, it is neither. It is a beginning of a magi-cal musical journey of three friends who first met in Norway and then in Bosnia and Herce-govina in order to fulfill a dream. A dream of music. International and multicultural music, music across borders that respects humanity, culture and religion. Music that comes from one person’s heart and goes right to the heart of another. This is the story of the musical group Rubinstein Klezmer Project.

almir mesKovicAlmir Meskovic is a young Bosnian “Rising Star” accordionist, who just graduated with much acclaim from the Sarajevo Music Academy. He has already been invited to give solo and chamber music perfor-mances in his native country Bosnia and Hercegovi-na, as well as in Germany and Scandinavia. Meskovic is especially known for his interpretive style and im-provisations on Bosnian folk music.

The musicians of the Rubinstein Klezmer Pro-ject, want to share their passion for music with people of many different origins and cultures all over the world. Their style crosses borders with classical, East European Yidishe klezmer, Sephardyc Jewish music and the broad specter of Balkan music. They set no limits, just follow the tradition of the “Klezmorim”, musicians who went from village to village, from Shtetl to Shtetl, to share joy and sorrow through their music. Welcome to their magical Journey...

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Heartfelt tHanks to tHe supporters of tHe project:

siri og arnstein Granlie (FagerStad Eindom AS)

Dag nordby (Teko Print & Kopi)

robin Waaler (Executive project leader)

Mery jakubowicz (Executive project coordinator)

studio “pavarotti” in Mostar (Bosnia & Hercegovina)

Darko kikas (musical producer)

For concert dates and booking details contact:

Robin Waaler+47 922 66 218robin.waaler@habberstad.no

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Mery Jakubowicz+47 920 42 227merklein@online.no