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Klezmer music...
Klezmer is the music that Jewish troubadours used
to peddle from one celebration to another, from one "shtetl" (village)
to a ghetto, in Eastern Europe, since the Middle Ages.
Rocked
in liturgy, inspired by ecstatic Hasidic melodies and secular songs, he
slummed in hostels and enriched with theater and folk dances.
In symbiosis with Slavic, Gypsy, and
Ottoman music, it acquired an incomparable diversity and richness of
expression. With changing paces, slight dissonance, ornamentation and a
touch of improvisation, klezmer encourages spirituality and dancing. It
is able to express all emotions, joy and sadness, meditation,
love, or drunkenness, without forgetting the (Jewish!) humor! Torn from
Europe by Nazism and Stalinism, he was engrafted to jazz in America
before becoming again popular worldwide.
Perpetuating the klezmer tradition without freezing
it, HOTEGEZUGT ('sez he!' in Yiddish) was formed and deformed since
thanks to a few musicians who love klezmer and Jewish music... It plays
a lot of klezmer and Yiddish themes, Israeli and Sephardic songs, and
some of its own compositions, all arranged in his own way and sometimes
mixed with classical and swing…
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Who
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Michel BORZYKOWSKI is born
in Geneva (Switzerland)
from Jewish Polish parents, survivors of the Shoah. Physician since a
long time and music lover since always, he discovered an
old saxophone in a cellar and the pleasure to play on it a few years
ago! He joined some Jazz bands in
Geneva (Pumpkin quartet, Alain Guyonnet's Love and Soda,
etc.). Since 1996, he takes up his cultural origins and
works mainly on klezmer and other
kinds of Jewish music with the bands Hotegezugt, Rojinkes mit Mandeln, Intsvishn, Diaspora Blues and Tohu veBohu. Yiddish dance leader, he is currently the
vice-president of the Association AMJ (Friends of
Jewish Music) http://www.amj.ch in
Geneva.
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Pier-Yves TETU studied accordion with
Denis Croisonier and Andre Thepaz, then at the Conservatory of Chambery
(France). Graduate as a tenor at the Conservatories of Grenoble and
Nevers (Paul Guigue), he participates in man concerts in France and in
Europe with Michel Chapel, the accordions quartet Harmonia and the singers of Evasion. He also
played with the French klezmer band Klej'Zema.
http://pier-yvestetu.e-monsite.com
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Bianca FAVEZ was born in Roumania. She began to
play the violin at five, then studied at the National Conservatory of Paris
where she won a first award and at the Conservatory of Geneva where she got a virtuosity. She played as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande and under the direction of Michel Corboz. Active in many orchestras and chamber music ensembles, she played in many festivals, in Switzerland and well as in Europe. Violin Professor at the Accademia d’Archi, she also plays as a soloist at the Orchestra of the Colleges (dir. Philippe Beran) and at the Orchestra of Saint-Jean (dir. Arsene Liechti). Who could have thought that such a career would make
her love to play with a klezmer band?
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Julien Paillard sails
since the age of 7, with his accordion, on the musical ocean that life offers him: classical, jazz, Irish, Breton, Chinese,
Mongolian, and -why not? - Klezmer! After the Conservatory
of Berne, he's completing his pedagogic training at
the High Music School
in Lausanne. But even more than music, his career is driven by the life that emanates from it and travel that it
causes...
Between two new projects, he likes to step back, breathe deeply and have a tender look on both past and future...
www.julienaccordeon.com
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Sylvie BOSSI
begins the accordion at the age of 9 ans because, after her Mam,
horseriding is too dangerous! After studying classical music
to musette, she teaches as early as 16, leads the Avenir accordeoniste de
Chatelaine and plays -among others- withe the Orchestre
Romand
des Professeurs
d'Accordeon, Cadenza Baiana, NaMaSy, Loch Leman
Ceilidh, Baroccordeon, Sebastien
Gabriel, Jean-Marie Curti and the Choeur Theatral of Avully.
Her
repertoire spreads over world music, Celtic and Eastern Europa Folk as
well as Tango, Rock, Baroque... no withstanding Jazz and Electro, in
short, every kind of nice and moving music...
www.baiana-split.ch.
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After learning classical piano at the Music
Conservatory in Lausanne and at the Jaques Dalcroze School in Geneva, Christine
NIGGELER choosed diversity: dance music, church organ,
accompanist of singers, composer, musical animator for children,
handicaped or elders in institutions, teacher, choir directror (Acratopege),
etc. Through traditional music of Eastern Europe and Mediterranea (with
the folk band Tamatakia), she quickly joined the
klezmer movement, in which she took a complete membership. She often
plays as a substitute with Hotegezugt.
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David MORHAIN found his first rhythmic inspiration on
his younger brother's head and on the darbouka he got from his
grand-father. Nourished with rock,he emerged into jazz with
the Big Band of the APEJS in Chambery, then
refined hese ears and sharpened hese drumsticks in various
jazz clubs. Presently drummer in the Jazz Big Band of Savoie
and in the Big Jazz Art, he also deals severly
with the band Naima and gets back to hese origins
with Hotegezugt!
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Continuously
hands-on and self unrepentant,
Frédéric BERNEY fell into music in
childhood and alert aftermath... Having devoured Wagner, Brassens, The
Beatles, Charlie Parker and Igor Stravinsky by both ears, having been guitarist,
actor, painter and filmmaker, he catches the biggest tool he could
find, tames it and begins to improvise: popular songs, symphonic music,
jazz and world music... with hot points in Indian and Klezmer music.
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Anne-Claire
MONNIER is born in the past century in a small village
in primitive Switzerland. She studied theater with Serge Martin and
learned everything she could in many occasions. She's member of Eva
Castellino's dance company "100% Acrylic"
and continues with passion her career, featuring as dancer, vocalist,
comedian and artistic director in Europe, Canada and Australia.
Although yiddish is not precisely her mameloshn,
she knows how to make its intonation alive with her extraordinary
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Born in Israel, Yael Miller studies classical and jazz singing, piano and trombone at the Yigal Alon conservatory in Israël. She's the first jazz singer in the famous "Outstanding Musician" program
of the Israeli army. Since she's 15, Yael composes, and features in
hese own bands. Her first concert out of her country is in China with
the vocal jazz band Contra Bat.
At 20, she leaves Israel to New York, France and finally
Geneva where she settles down since 2006. She sings with various jazz,
funk, rock musicians, rappers, slammers and klezmorim, creates the band Orioxy, records and work with the Labiscou
Company. Furthermore, she studies Kial, a classical North Indian
singing technique in Varanasi. With all these influences, she
creates a very personal musical universe.
www.orioxy.net
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HOTEGEZUGT
