Internationally recognized as one of this generation's most influential performers of Yiddish vocal music, Adrienne Cooper appears on concert, theater, and club stages around the world and her singing has been featured on some twenty recordings including the Grammy-nominated "Partisans of Vilna." She has mentored and
inspired a generation of singers and bands in the burgeoning klezmer revival scene , teaching internationally as well as performing and recording with, among others, Mikveh - her virtuoso Jewish women's klezmer ensemble, The Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, Zalmen Mlotek, The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Kapelye, Marilyn Lerner, and Frank London's Shekhine Big Band.

Her singing can be heard in the educational installation at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and on the museum's CD productions "Remember the Children" and "Hidden Histories: Songs from the Kovno Ghetto."

She is co- creator of groundbreaking new works of Yiddish/English music theater - including the acclaimed "The Memoir of Gluckl of Hameln" and "Ghetto Tango." Each summer, under the auspices of the Jewish Community Development Fund of American Jewish World Service, Ms. Cooper travels to Russia and the Ukraine to train a new generation of Jewish musicians from throughout the former Soviet territories.

Ms. Cooper received her musical training at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, and holds degrees in history from Hebrew University and the University of Chicago. She served for a decade as Assistant Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Director of its Summer Intensive Yiddish Language and Culture Program at Columbia University, and co-founder of the model intergenerational Yiddish folk arts program, Klezcamp. Ms.Cooper's work has been recognized by awards and grants from United Synagogue, UJA Federation of New York, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Council for the Humanities, National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is the recipient of Klez Canada's Lifetime Achievement Award in Yiddish Arts and Culture. Ms. Cooper is the host of the historic weekly Yiddish radio magazine "The Forward Hour" and currently serves as Director of the Center for Cultural Jewish Life at the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring in New York City.

Recordings

Enchanted Journey: Songs from Yiddishland (forthcoming 2004)

Ghetto Tango with Zalmen Mlotek ( Traditional Crossroads, 2000)

Mikveh (Traditional Crossroads, 2001)

Shekhine (Frank London, 1999)

New Jewish Music: Live at the Knitting Factory (1999)

In Love and Struggle: The Musical Legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund (1998)

Hidden History: Songs of the Kovno Ghetto (US Holocaust Museum, 1997)

The Green Duck: Songs for Children (Living Traditions, 1997)

Fire with The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band (Traditional Crossroads, 1996)

Dreaming in Yiddish (1995)

Kapelye on the Air: Old Time Jewish American Radio (Shanache Records, 1995)

On Wings of Song (Workmens Circle)

Pearls of Yiddish Song with Zalmen Mlotek (Workmens Circle)

Remember the Children (US Holocaust Memorial Commission, 1991)

Partisans of Vilna (Shanache Records, 1989)

Vaserl: New Yiddish Songs (1979)

Performance highlights:

Actors' House, St. Petersburg, Russia

Ashkenaz Festival of New Yiddish Culture, Toronto, Canada

Astor Place Theater, New York City

Berkeley Jewish Music Festival, California

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland

Festiwal Kultury Zydowskiej, Cracow, Poland

Fez, New York City

Gasteig, Munich, Germany

Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

Haus der Welt Kultur, Berlin, Germany

Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin Germany

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

The Jewish Museum, New York City

The Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City

Judische Kulturtage in Berlin, Chemnitz, Furth and Munich, Germany

The Khan Theater, Jerusalem

Die Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam, Holland

Klez Canada, St. Agathe de Mont, Quebec

The Knitting Factory, New York City

LaMama Theater Annex, New York City

Leivick House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York City

Los Angeles Theater Center

V-Day Benefit, Madison Square Garden, NYC

Merkin Concert Hall, New York City

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Moscow University

The 92nd Street Y, New York City

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Centre, Connecticut

The Town Hall, New York City

Salon Christofori, Amsterdam, Holland

Sherover Jerusalem Theater, Israel

Stadtische Theater Chemnitz, Germany

Theater Bellvue, Amsterdam, Holland

Tonic, New York City

The WABE, Berlin, Germany

Yiddishkayt Festival, Los Angeles

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