Performers' Index H
Habrera Hativeet
Formed in 1977, Habrera Hativeet has performed around the world with Shlomo Bar, the founder, and features Sephardic and Eastern music fused with modern Israel. Bar, born in Rabat, Morocco, composes most of the group's songs. He plays drums and flute and also arranges much of the music. The rest of the band is: Manashe Sasson, on Santur; Nitsan-Ken Razel, violin; Samson Khamkar on violin, the sitar and the flute; Ilan Ben-Ami, guitar; Yael Offenbach, Tabla; and Yaacob Segal, piano, ud, and bass. Habrera hativeet have 9 CDs, some of which were originally released in LP. The group tours extensively world wide. The website features a video clip from The 11th Jewish Music Festival in Cracow - Poland, July 2001. Having attended a concert of this group at Brandeis, I can attest to the excitement experienced in a HH concert.
http://www.shlomobar.com/
Halevi Choral Society
The Halevi Choral Society is a professional Jewish choir located in Chicago, IL under the direcction of Judith Karzen. Founded as a community chorus in 1926 by Harry Coopersmith and Hyman Reznick, the choral group, devotes its entire repertoire to Jewish music. Styles include liturgical, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino and secular Jewish music. The Choral group presents many new works and commissions compositions. The website includes contact information, a history, a mission statement and a concert schedule.
http://www.vjc.org/halevi/
Halil Duo
Piano and Flute duet, perform classical and Jewish music. Biographical information and clips of music available on the website.
http://www.halilduo.com/
Hanna Yaffe
Produced a CD of lullabies in various languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian.
http://www.batkol.com/
Ruby Harris Music
Ruby Harris plays the blues and "jazmer" --klezmer violin. His website has some music clips and short history of his work. Several recordings are featured. Contact Information: 6645 N. California / 303,
Chicago, IL 60645 . call 773-465-6565
http://www.rubyharrismusic.com
Hazamir Choir of Helsinki --Judiska Sangforeningen rf
A history of this Finnish Jewish choir online.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aschulma/srk/choirhist.htm
Robyn Helzner
Robyn Helzner performs Ladino, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian and English Jewish folk songs. She often tours as part of a trio.
http://www.helzner.com/
Fred Hersch
American Jazz pianist and composer, described by The New Yorker as "a poet of a pianist". Hersch has been awarded several residencies at the MacDowell Colony, including in February, 2006, when his CD Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis (Palmetto Records) will also be released. He tours widely in the United States and Europe. Hersch has reached outstanding acclaim in the jazz world, such that a Jazziz magazine writer stated: "few jazz pianists have ever struck as beguiling a balance between technique, feeling, insight and imagination...Hersch s engagement with each of these songs is so complete that he evokes the sort of secret meanings words cannot. Besides critical claim, Hersch composes 'classical' music, and has won a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition, a Rockefeller Fellowship for a composition residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy and two Grammy® nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance. The website includes a discography of his recorded music, a list of compositions, tour, and contact information.
http://www.fredhersch.com/index.html
Hester Street Troupe
Klezmer and other Jewish music consisting of Alan Sweifach, clarinet ; Jay Sweifach, keyboards(synthesizer); and Jim Bazewicz, drums.
They have 3 CDs: Generation to Generation, Sounds of the Shtetl, and their third CD is On Second Avenue, consisting of Yiddish Vaudeville and the Lower East Side songs. Contact: (908) 276-5245 or email: HSTroupe@aol.com
Bonnie Abrams & Allen Hopkins
Bonnie Abrams and Allen Hopkins perform acoustic folk music. Bonnie writes and sings new songs. A CD called A Sudenyu of Yiddish offers traditional and contemporary folk and theater songs in Yiddish.
http://dynrec.com/bonnieabrams/
Joshua Horowitz
Budowitz is an ensemble that plays nineteenth century klezmer music on original instruments. The musicians in this group provide a sound steeped both in musicological and historical knowledge as well as the subtlety and coloration described by the reviewers as "pure emotion." Budowitz is staffed by leading lights in the klezmer world including Joshua Horowitz and Merlin Shepherd. Of special note is an interview with Budowitz as well as a history of klezmer.
http://members.styria.com/budowitz/
The Hot Latkes Klezmer Band
Based in London, Ontario, Canada. This professional Klezmer ensemble was launched in the spring of 1993. The group has developed an extensive repertoire of Klezmer, Yiddish theatre music and Ladino.
http://www.empath.on.ca/hotlatkes/