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Trio Fadolín at The Local in Saugerties
2025-04-06 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Local, 16 John Street, Saugerties, New York
Trio Fadolín ventures up the thruway in the early days of spring (we hope it will be springy!) to present their program “From Near and Far”, in the exquisite new venue, The Local Center for Arts and Culture. Join us!

Trio Fadolín at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
2025-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Trio Fadolín presents a concert of music by Yehiel Goyzman, Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky, Alexander Zhurbin and Ljova, as well as folk music from Central Asia, at Columbia University’s majestic St. Paul’s Chapel. Admission is free, but, due to the ongoing security situation on campus, advance registration is required — you must be pre-registered by March 31, 11am. Registration will only take a minute.

Trio Fadolín at Concerts by The Pond
2025-03-23 15:00 - 17:00 | St. John’s Church, 1670 Rt. 25a., Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 11724, United States
Trio Fadolín performs as part of the innovative “Concerts by the Pond” series in beautiful St. John’s Church on Long Island. Join us! (Rescheduled from February 9.)

International Women of Mystery Show at Barbès
2025-03-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11215, United States
Celebrate International Women’s Day with a dose of mystery! Join an ensemble of intrepid New York musicians – Romanian-born vocalist Sanda Weigl, Lithuanian-born vocalist Inna Barmash, Japanese-born accordionist and pianist Shoko Nagai, and fadolínist Ljova for a globe-trotting set in a panoply of languages, celebrating love, tragedy, and humor.

SANDA WEIGLSanda Weigl first heard Gypsy music as a young girl outside the police station across the street from her home, where Gypsy families would camp, sometimes for days, awaiting the release of loved ones. Though Weigl herself is not Roma, her life has been similarly nomadic. In the early sixties, exiled with her family from Romania, she settled in East Berlin and studied theatre and singing with her aunt, Helene Weigel, Bertolt Brecht’s widow. She later joined a state-sanctioned rock band called Team 4 (the group included a future East German deputy minister of culture). She was eventually expelled from East Germany and moved to West Berlin, where she worked in the theatre with Robert Wilson, among others. In the early nineties, with Wilson’s encouragement, Weigl relocated to New York and began performing Gypsy songs around town with an assortment of excellent downtown musicians.

INNA BARMASH

Inna first started singing in Yiddish back in her home city of Vilnius, Lithuania as a child in the late 80s. After immigrating to the US with her family in 1991, Inna has continued singing in Yiddish, Russian and other languages with numerous klezmer and folk groups in the NY area. She is the vocalist of the chamber folk band Ljova & the Kontraband and co-leads the gypsy dance party band Romashka.

SHOKO NAGAI:

Shoko Nagai is a versatile musical artist who improvises and performs with world-renowned musicians on piano and accordion and composes original scores for films and live performances. As a teenager in her native Japan, Nagai was trained on Yamaha’s electronic organ, the “Electone,” to perform popular music. Since moving to the U.S. from Japan and studying classical, jazz music, and compositions at Berklee, she has adapted her mastery of the keyboard to prepared piano, accordions, and other keyboard instruments, often inspired by the minimalist approach of composer Toru Takemitsu. Whether she is performing Klezmer, Balkan or experimental music, Nagai is a charismatic presence onstage, who hypnotizes audiences with her intense focus and virtuoso sound.

LJOVA:

LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, performing with and composing for TRIO FADOLÍN, as well as a busy career as a violist, fadolínist & musical arranger. Among recent projects are commissions from the City of London Sinfonia, The Louisville Orchestra, a new work for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider, a clarinet quintet for Art of Élan, and works for The Knights, Sybarite5 and A Far Cry, as well arrangements for the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, tenor Javier Camarena, conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra, songwriters Ricky Martin, Natalia Lafourcade and Carlos Vives, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla and Osvaldo Golijov. Ljova frequently collaborates with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance).

RECORDINGS BY SANDA WEIGL on BARBES RECORDS:

AUDIO: https://barbes.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-in-a-tree

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jiovraWlc4

RECORDING OF INNA’S ‘YIDDISH LULLABIES & LOVE SONGS PROJECT’:

AUDIO: https://innabarmash.bandcamp.com/album/yiddish-lullabies-love-songs

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5FGo415o8&list=PLbIPvwt2YdFnnV4tm8lPvrO3SFADI1bFG

$20 suggested

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Tamar Sagiv and Ljova at Barbès
2025-02-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11215, United States
Ljova joins cellist Tamar Sagiv for an evening of solos and duos at Brooklyn’s finest back room.

Trio Fadolín at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
2025-02-02 15:00 | Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Avenue (at 73rd Street), New York, New York, 10021, United States
Trio Fadolín performs at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church / Saint Andrew Music Society series.. Our program will feature a work by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks inspired by the writings of Teresa de Avila, his “Castillo Interior”; as well as works by Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky and Uzbekistan-based composer Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky.

Mireia Clua and Ljova: Two Sides of a Fadolín - at Barbès
2025-01-25 18:00 | Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11215, United States
What’s better than one fadolín — two fadolíns! For the first time at a show together, come witness “Mireia Clua and Ljova — Two Sides of a Fadolín” — this performance will bring together two sides of the fadolín, the unique 6-stringed instrument that encompasses the range of a violin, viola, and most of the cello. Ljova will perform compositions from his ongoing project “Enter the Fadolín”, and Mireia Clua will perform pieces from her new project “The Future of the Rocks”, featuring the fadolín and looper. A unique opportunity to hear two sides of a fadolín, together for the first time.

Trio Fadolín at the Metropolitan Museum's Balcony Bar
2025-01-17 18:00 - 2025-01-18 00:00 | Metropolitan Museum of Art – Balcony Bar, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New york, New York, 10028, United States
Trio Fadolín returns to the Metropolitan Museum‘s Balcony Bar (just above the main entrance) for some informal musicmaking on January 17 and 18 — we’ll play three between 6-8:30pm. This is not a concert — but it’s not background music, either. It’s what you make of it — sit up close to enjoy the music, or sit further away and enjoy the ambiance.Free with museum admission — enjoy 2-for-1 drink specials and join us for a set!

Yiddish Songs of Love and Loss with Inna Barmash, Shoko Nagai and Ljova
2025-01-11 18:00 | Barbès, 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11215, United States
Ljova joins Inna Barmash’s project “Yiddish Lullabies and Love Songs” in the intimate backroom of Barbès, in Park Slope, featuring Inna Barmash (vocals), Shoko Nagai (accordion and piano), and Ljova (fadolín).

Romashka
2025-01-04 20:00 | New York
Ljova joins the inextinguishable party band Romashka for a night of old favorites, featuring vocalist Inna Barmash, special guest trumpeter Frank London, violinist Jake Shulman-Ment, clarinettist Jeff Perlman, accordionist Shoko Nagai, guitarist Jay Vilnai, tubist Ron Caswell and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. For a good time, go to a Romashka show!

Trio Fadolín
2024-12-06 19:30 | New York
Trio Fadolín makes its Vermont debut at the University of Vermont’s Lane Series in Burlington! Join us!

Trio Fadolín
2024-12-02 18:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín returns to the Bruno Walter Auditorium at New York Public Library’s Lincoln Center branch with a new program, “From Near and Far”:
Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara — ancient cities in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road that played a pivotal role in the histories of generations of Jewish families, shielding them from persecution and death. This is true of families of the members of Trio Fadolín, each of whom had a family member find themselves in Uzbekistan as a refugee from their homeland.
This concert will showcase compositions from Uzbekistan and beyond, featuring works by renowned composers Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky, Alexander Zhurbin, and Ljova, as well as selections by Frederick Block from the Library’s collection of Archives and Manuscripts, as well as arrangements of folk music from Uzbekistan.

Trio Fadolín
2024-11-10 15:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín performs a concert at St. John’s Church in the Village, featuring works by Yehiel Goyzman, Vasyl Barvinsky, Ljova, and others.

Trio Fadolín
2024-11-09 20:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín performs music by Barvinsky, Goyzman, Ljova and others, as part of the Classical Candlelight series hosted by WQXR’s Elliott Forrest, making our debut in Rockland County!

Ljova
2024-10-26 16:00 | New York
Ljova, playing on the fadolín, joins pianist and composer Alex Nakhimovsky for a varied concert featuring original music by Ljova, Alex Nakhimovsky, Bach, Piazzolla, John Williams, and others.

Trio Fadolín
2024-10-18 18:00 - 2024-10-19 00:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín returns to the Metropolitan Museum’s Balcony Bar (just above the main entrance) for some informal musicmaking on October 18 and 19 — we’ll play three between 6-8:30pm. This is not a concert — but it’s not background music, either. It’s what you make of it — sit up close to enjoy the music, or sit further away and enjoy the ambiance.
Free with museum admission — enjoy 2-for-1 drink specials and join us for a set!

Natalia Lafourcade
2024-10-10 20:00, 2024-09-07 20:00, 2024-09-06 18:00 | New York
Ljova wrote some new arrangements for Natalia Lafourcade’s performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, extending his multiyear collaboration with these great artists.

Trio Fadolín
2024-10-09 18:30 | New York
TRIO FADOLÍN collaborates with the remarkable pianist DAN TEPFER to perform MORTON FELDMAN’s final work, “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello” at the New York Studio School, where Feldman was the Dean from 1969 to 1971.
At nearly seventy-five minutes, the work is emblematic of the longer works of the composer’s late career when he asked himself, “What would I write if I just didn’t think about the length—what would I write if I didn’t think about the audience?”
This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant programs supported by the funding agencies The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and administered by LMCC.

Ljova
2024-09-07 18:00 | New York
Ljova brings his “Enter The Fadolín” program to a backyard in Venice, CA — the Los Angeles-area debut of this program. See you there!

Ljova
2024-08-03 16:00 | New York
Miranda Cuckson performs Ljova’s “Greenway” at Bargemusic, on a program with works by Bach, Bartók, and George Walker.

Trio Fadolín
2024-07-25 19:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín performs its “Heirlooms” program — featuring works by Vasyl Barvinsky, Yehiel Goyzman, Ljova, and a selection of Armenian folk music — at a picnic concert in the garden of Fort Washington Collegiate Church, presented by the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra. Free admission!

Ljova
2024-06-29 18:00 | New York
Ljova joins his wife, vocalist Inna Barmash, and accordionist Ilya Shneyveys, for a set of Yiddish lullabies and folksongs.

Trio Fadolín
2024-06-26 19:00 | New York
UPDATE: This concert has been canceled due to forecast inclement weather.
Trio Fadolín performs an acoustic set in Central Park, as part of the MusicTalks series. Bring your own picnic!

Ljova
2024-06-21 17:00 | New York
Ljova performs with Percussia at the Gantry State Park as part of Make Music New York festival, featuring music by Frank London, Carlo Nicolau, and Ljova

Trio Fadolín
2024-06-16 16:00 | New York
Trio Fadolín makes its Roosevelt Island debut with a program featuring works by Sergei Aslamazyan, Vasyl Barvinsky, Yehiel Goyzman and Ljova.

Ljova
2024-06-16 12:00 | New York
Ljova performs with Zisl Slepovitch’s project Litvakus as part of the annual Egg rolls, Egg creams and Empanadas Festival at Eldridge Street Synagogue’s street fair, celebrating the cross roads of Jewish, Chinese and Latin-American culture. Litvakus set time is 12-12:30pm, reservations required.

Ljova
2024-06-08 14:30 | New York
Ljova performs with Percussia at branches of the Queens Public Library, these programs feature pieces by Carlo Nicolau, Eziquiel Viñao, Quentin Chiappetta and possibly others.

Ljova
2024-06-07 19:30 | New York
The North Shore Chamber Music Festival presents a program dedicated to the repertoire of legendary clarinettist Benny Goodman, including several arrangements of Goodman’s repertoire by Ljova. Featuring clarinetist Ilya Shterenberg, violinists Vadim Gluzman, Danbi Um, Paul Huang, violists Jan Grüning, Katie Liu, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, bassist Kurt Muroki, and pianists Alessio Bax and Angela Yoffe
