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Lunchtime Concert: Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic (aka Khane K & The North Kingdom Klezmer Consort)
Sunday December 22, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College
ANNE KALMERING & STAHLHAMMER KLEZMER CLASSIC
(aka Khane K & The North Kingdom Klezmer Consort)

The North Kingdom - Shvedn (Sweden) - is home to a burgeoning scene of klezmer ensembles, Yiddish clubs, and even a hit TV show featuring robots that speak Yiddish! Lead singer Anne Kalmering´s warm, humorous and soulful interpretations of Yiddish songs have made her a central figure of a unique Jewish-Shvedish cultural heritage. This special YNY concert features Kalmering together with a group of long-time all-star instrumental colleagues, Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic. The collaboration shows the breadth of klezmer & Yiddish music – Jewish folk music meets chamber music and cabaret in suggestive and playful settings. Anne Kalmering & Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic been featured in festivals on radio, TV and even at Parliament! They have recently recorded a new CD, Vayter, and YNY is excited to host the North American debut of this wonderful partnership.

Anne Kalmering is a singer and actress. She is a front figure in Swedish Yiddish culture, and ranges from Ashkenazi and Sephardic tradition to modern music. Anne collaborates with many of the most established musicians in the genre, and has performed on festivals, in concert halls, in television, in radio, in the Swedish Parliament, in the Swedish Royal Castle, in schools, in kinder gardens, and in many different venues in Scandinavia, North America and throughout Europe. Anne also gives songworkshops for all ages, is a beloved radiovoice in Thoughts of the day, P1 Swedish Radio and a writer of children stories for radio and TV where she also have been a host for children programmes.

Semmy Stahlhammer (violin) has been First Concertmaster at the Royal Swedish Opera and teacher of the Stockholm Royal Music College and a solo artist in numerous CD recordings. He is one Swedens most engaged violinists and tours around the world. In his book Codename  Barber (2007), he describes the fate of his family before, during, and after the Second World War. 

Miriam Oldenburg (accordion) works with many klezmer musicians, and is frequently engaged as musician also in cabarées, theatre plays, radio and television. Besides her engagement in Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic she is also part of the Lindy & Bon Bon Band, Klez is more, the world music  group Parizad and the duo Glädjeflickorna. Sha has also toured Europa with the Cirque de Soleil. 

Isabel Blommé (cello) has worked with the Royal Opera in Stockholm, the Swedish Radio Symphony orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony orchestra. She performs at international music festivals, in radio and television, and on many recordings. Isabel is member of the Ensemble Fenix and of the world music group Parizad. 

Cellist Atida Munthe Stahlhammer teaches cello and also performs with the Yidishe Kapelye group in Sweden. She has performed at the summertime Brunneby Music Festival in Herrgård. She is being featured at YNY with Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic.

ABOUT THE STAHLHAMMER ORCHESTRA
The ensemble Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic pass on the tradition from The Stahlhammer orchestra that consisted of Semmy’s grandfather, uncles and friends, and was founded around 1910 in Krasnik, a small town south of Lublin in Poland. The orchestra played traditional Jewish Eastern European music, gave concerts and played at weddings and other parties. Semmy’s grand father Zisel also ran a dance school and a barbershop. After the nazi’s invaded Poland in 1939, all the members of the orchestra except one – Semmy’s father – were deported together with all of Krasnic’s jews to extermination camps. Semmy has brought his grandfathers and uncles old ensemble to life with new members.
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Anne Kalmering

Anne Kalmering is a singer and actress. She is a front figure in Swedish Yiddish culture, and ranges from Ashkenazi and Sephardic tradition to modern music. Anne collaborates with many of the most established musicians in the genre, and has performed on festivals, in concert halls... Read More →
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Semmy Stahlhammer

Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic
Semmy Stahlhammer (violin) has been First Concertmaster at the Royal Swedish Opera and teacher of the Stockholm Royal Music College and a solo artist in numerous CD recordings. He is one of Sweden's most engaged violinists and tours around the world. In his book Codename  Barber (2007... Read More →
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Miriam Oldenburg

Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic
Miriam Oldenburg (accordion) works with many klezmer musicians, and is frequently engaged as musician also in cabarées, theatre plays, radio and television. Besides her engagement in Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic she is also part of the Lindy & Bon Bon Band, Klez is more, the world... Read More →
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Atilda Munthe Stahlhammer

Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic
Cellist Atida Munthe Stahlhammer teaches cello and also performs with the Yidishe Kapelye group in Sweden. She has performed at the summertime Brunneby Music Festival in Herrgård. She is being featured at YNY with Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic.

Sunday December 22, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm EST
Chapel - Hebrew Union College 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
  Concert (Hybrid)

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