In the Exile: A Concert of Jewish Music with Jascha Nemtsov (piano)

Nemtsov鈥檚 program combines works by several European Jewish composers who established themselves as important representatives of the Jewish national movement in music and of the musical modernity of the first decades of the twentieth century. To escape anti-Semitic persecutions they were forced to flee to the New World. Their compositions fell into oblivion and were recently rediscovered. Their music is a valuable enrichment of today鈥檚 concert repertoire. Jascha will also play a work by the Russian 鈥� non-Jewish 鈥� composer Vsevolod Zaderatsky. This highly gifted musician spent his whole life in Russia suffering under political persecution and spent many years in prison and in the Gulag. The performance of his music was prohibited during his life time. Jascha is the first pianist to perform it now outside of Russia.

About Jascha Nemtsov: Jascha was born in Magadan (Russia). He studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Concert Diploma with distinction). He currently lives in Germany. Jascha鈥檚 repertoire focuses primarily on Jewish and Russian composers of the 20th century. He has produced 26 CDs as a soloist and with partners David Geringas (violoncello), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin), the Vogler Quartet and others. His CDs have been awarded many distinctions including 鈥淒isc of the Month April 2006鈥� (BBC Music Magazine) and the German Record Critics Prize (2007). Jascha Nemtsov is a member of the School of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam and Academic Director of the Cantorial School of the Abraham Geiger College (Berlin/Potsdam).

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