Joel Rubin

about

Joel Rubin (U.S.), clarinet, is among the leading performers of Jewish instrumental klezmer music in the world today, earning accolades from sources as diverse as klezmer giants Dave Tarras and Max Epstein, international clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman, avant garde composer John Zorn, and Nobel Prize Laureate and poet Roald Hoffmann. He studied with Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman, attended the California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University (London) for his pioneering work on improvisation and ornamentation in klezmer clarinet music. He is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Music Performance at the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music, and has taught at Cornell, Syracuse University, Ithaca College, and Humboldt University in Berlin. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

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Zeydes Un Eyniklekh (Jewish-American Wedding Music)

Bessarabian Symphony (Early Jewish Instrumental Music)

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L'armée du crime

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Zeydes un Eyniklekh

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Hungry Hearts - Classic Yiddish Clarinet Solos of the 1920s

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Azoy Tsu Tsveyt

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Live From Klezkamp! The Staff Concerts 1985-2003

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Hungry Hearts

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Beregovski's Khasene

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Bergovski's Khasene

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Midnight Prayer

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Bessarabian Symphony

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