Join Yasmin Garfunkel (soprano) and Silvia Gerszkowicz (piano) from Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a concert celebrating the beauty of Sephardic songs with a special selection of songs in Yiddish. Don’t miss this poetic and musical journey! The concert will take place on Saturday, October 25 from 7:30 – 8:30pm at the BWC Building located at 6 Webster Street in Brookline. Register here.

The suggested price for this event is $20 per person, though all BWC events are pay what you can. Please use this form to pay for your tickets. Choose “Yiddish Committee/Events” on the question that asks what event you participated in.

About the artists:
Silvia B. Gerszkowicz: Pianist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she has lived in Boston, MA for almost 20 years. She studied piano with Haydée Schvartz and with “Mono” Fontana. Master un History and Aesthetics of Music from CEAMC, she published several articles in the Musicology Magazine by Instituto Nacional del Litoral and an article published in a book by Gourmet Musical. She worked as Notorious Artistic Director, and participated in “Lunfardos” together with Federico Zypce (composer and actor), and with Antonio Gasalla (actor). In the US, she performed in several musical projects for kids at the MA public library brunches. She is currently the pianist and director of “Romanzas Sefaradíes”, her project together with Yasmin Garfunkel (soprano) and Sami Abadi (violin).

Yasmin Garfunkel is an Argentine singer, teacher, and researcher specializing in Yiddish language and culture. She has given concerts, lectures, and workshops in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and Tel Aviv. She is a member of the piano, flute, and voice trio “Garfunkel-Garber-Brenlle”, as well as the band Peretz Garcik, dedicated to the performance and composition of klezmer music and songs (in) Yiddish. Within the framework of the Area of Research in Performing Arts and Judaism (JADE), together with Dr. Silvia Glocer, she carries out the project “Sounding the Archives”, which seeks to perform and preserve the music of Jewish European immigrants who arrived in Argentina during the 20th century, which has never been recorded before. She translated from Spanish into Yiddish the anthology “La lengua en filigrana”, curated by Karina Lerman, which gathers poems by twelve contemporary Jewish-Latin American women authors. She is currently part of the trio “Romanzas Sefaradíes”, next to Silvia Gerszkowicz (piano) and Sami Abadi (violin).