Golden Thread Ensemble is a pioneering new chamber-klezmer group led by Craig Judelman, featuring The Klezmatics’ frontman Lorin Sklamberg, Latvian chanteuse Sasha Lurje and a virtuosic string quintet made up of leading klezmer musicians. Combining a deep grounding in klezmer, Yiddish theater, classical and contemporary art music, this new project has already received rave reviews at North America’s premiere klezmer festivals for its program celebrating the power of music to carry and communicate the human experience, and its critical role in the important struggles for improvements in the living and working conditions for millions of people over the last 150 years.
Sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program, Chicago YIVO Society, Department of Music, Department of Germanic Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Yiddish Fund at the University of Chicago, and the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies with funding from the Joseph S. Pinkert Memorial Fund and the Bonnie Kaplan Fund for Yiddish Language, Culture, and History.