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Jewlia Eisenberg
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Jewlia Eisenberg is a composer, extended-technique vocalist, lay cantor, and founder of the diaspora girl group Charming Hostess.
Her work explores the intersection of text and the sounding body, pushing for translation strategies between verbal and non-verbal languages.
CDs include Sarajevo Blues, which sets Bosnian resistance poetry, and Trilectic, a look at the political-erotic world of Walter Benjamin. Jewlia is now at work on The Bowls Project, a large-scale installation based on Babylonian Jewish amulets.
She has been an Artist-in-Residence at MIT and University of Denver; she has studied with Sozanda Muna Nissimova, Fred Frith and Daniel Boyarin. Jewlia has collaborated with anarcholits Fantom Slobode, choreographer Jo Kreiter and filmmaker Lynn Sachs. Commissioned work includes Harmonices Mundi (Sloan/EST), an opera about Kepler’s mother, and Red Rosa (Puffin/SF Goethe Institut), a song cycle based on the letters of Rosa Luxemburg.
archives- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Koret Foundation
- Forest Creatures Entertainment
- Official Wine Sponsor: Hagafen
- Official Chocolate Sponsor: Alegio Chocolate