Sun Aug 4 21:30
Kleztory
Kleztory is one of the most dynamic klezmer ensembles in the world today. From busking on the streets of Montreal to producing award-winning albums, performances at international festivals, commissions, and guest appearances with many orchestras, Kleztory never fails to delight. After 20 years together and over a thousand electrifying concerts, their music remains contagious, delivered with passion, virtuosity, and brio in the true spirit of klezmer music. With band members from various musical backgrounds and sensibilities (conservatory-trained and self-taught players of classical, contemporary, jazz, blues, traditional, country, and folk), their innovative and respectful arrangements of traditional music from Eastern European shtetlech—small Eastern European villages or “ghettos” in Yiddish, show the klezmer tradition at its finest.
- Kleztorychamber ensemble
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Festival 2024
Experience five spectacular programs on our Signature Series, featuring large-scale collaborations between world-renowned musicians at Ottawa’s Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. The 2024 Signature Series is generously sponsored by Bytek Volkswagen & Carling Volvo.
This series celebrates Canada’s world-class standard in chamber performance, featuring core string ensembles, solo piano, brass and vocal ensembles, and more! Taking place at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, these concerts are generously supported by Marina Kun (of Ottawa-based and internationally loved Kun Shoulder Rests).
Our late-night Chamberfringe concerts cross genres and art forms, pushing the boundaries of chamber music with daring and electric performances. Offering everything from lively Arabic jazz to Middle Eastern-Metal fusion, Indigenous beats, and ambient chamber-electronica to Yiddish folk song, or a full-on Ukrainian-Celtic-Arab mashup, there’s always something fresh to check out!
Our Chamberfringe shows take place at La Nouvelle Scène, Club SAW, and The Gladstone Theatre, providing a more casual setting where audiences can enjoy beverages and immerse themselves in the buzzing late-night atmosphere.
