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Walter Zev Feldman
is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer
on the klezmer dulcimer, cimbal (tsimbl). His book, Music of the Ottoman Court:
Makam,Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire was published
in Berlin in 1996, and is currently being translated into Turkish. He
contributed the "Ottoman Music" and "Klezmer Music" articles to the New
Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) as well as the Turkish,
Chaghatay, and Turkmen Literature articles for the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Feldman is a part-time associate professor at Bar-Ilan University in Tel-Aviv
and a fellow of the Center for Jewish Music Research at the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. He was a co-editor of the Medimuses Project for Modal Musics of the
Mediterranean for the EnChordais School in Thessaloniki, Greece, sponsored by
the European Union (2002-05). In 2004 he co-directed the UNESCO application of
the Mevlevi Dervishes as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity. He recently co-produced the CD Tanburi Isak with the Bezmara Ensemble
of Istanbul for EnChordais. In 2003 he curated the concert series "The Revival
of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York" at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was
artistic director of last season's Music and Dance of the Jewish Wedding at the
92nd Street Y. This season he serves in the same capacity for the Y's series
titled Shared Sacred Space: Music of the Mystics.
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