About me
Was born in Philadelphia into a music-loving family that produced a composer (Annie Gosfield), a virtuoso steel guitarist (Lucky Oceans), as well as one outlier, political artist Josh Gosfield. Active as a performer, teacher and researcher, she directs the early music group Lucidarium. In 2004, a chance discovery of some Jewish-Italian sung poetry allowed her to conjugate her roots with her interest in early music. Since then, she has pursued the early-Jewish link with passion, painstakingly reconstructing the music for sung poetry in Yiddish, Giudeo-Italian, Judeo-Catalan and Hebrew, and is now considered one of the foremost authorities on performing this neglected repertoire. She has taught at Klezkanada, YNY, Yiddish Summer Weimar and performs regularly in the most important Jewish and early music festivals with Ensemble Lucidarium as well as in fusion projects featuring the “crème de la crème” of the Jewish music scene. She won the “ShUM Cities Artist in Residence” award for creating the music video “Ritual Echoes,” and has written and produced two others:“Yiddishland,” about four Jewish artists living in Berlin, and “Silent Shadows,” which explores the links between micro and macro-aggressions in the history of antisemitism. From 2020 – 2023 she was director of the Jüdische Woche Dresden and now runs “Spielen gegen Antisemitismus”, an association dedicated to fighting antisemitsm by bringing people into contact with Jewish Culture.
