Calling all young professionals! Join us for drinks, light fare and an unforgettable evening of music and dance performed by some of Boston’s most creative and trailblazing Jewish artists.
This performance, titled A Meeting of the Arts, is an immersive art experience featuring original music and dance by composer and guitarist Ira Klein, multi-instrumentalist Beth Bahia Cohen, and dancer Rachel Linsky. This work is inspired by guitarist Ira Klein’s research into the mysterious Catalan Mahzor, a 14th-century Jewish illuminated manuscript from Spain.
This program is co-sponsored by the Boston Festival of New Jewish Music.
Meet the Artists
Ira Klein is an award-winning interdisciplinary guitarist, composer, producer, and educator from Jerusalem, Israel. Currently based in Cambridge, MA, he aspires to create deeply rooted, fresh, and idiosyncratic contemporary music. He is a staff guitarist at Berklee College of Music and runs a thriving private guitar and banjo studio at the Cambridge Music Consortium. In 2021, Ira circled back to his Israeli roots and formed Convivencia (Co-existence), a contemporary Ladino (Jewish-Sephardic) music ensemble that brings together musicians from Israel, Iran, Greece, Cyprus, and the United States. Ira is a 2022-23 JArts and CJP Community Creative Fellow.
Beth Bahia Cohen is a violinist of Syrian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish heritage. Inspired at a young age by the sounds she heard at family gatherings, she went on to study with master musicians from Hungary, Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East. She plays the violin, viola, Greek lyras, Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, Norwegian hardingfele, and Egyptian rababa. Beth is an associate professor of strings at Berklee College of Music, and has played with Led Zeppelin, Itzhak Perlman, Phillip Glass, and numerous orchestras.
Rachel Linsky is a Boston-based contemporary dance artist who directs and choreographs ZACHOR, an ongoing series that seeks to preserve the words of WWII Holocaust survivors through dance. She has presented at venues throughout Boston including New England Conservatory, the Boston Center for the Arts and The Huntington Theater. Rachel is a 2022-23 JArts and CJP Community Creative Fellow, and a member of the 2023-24 Next Steps for Boston Dance cohort. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography and a B.A in Arts Administration from Elon University.
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