Welcome to the 2007 Jewish Music Festival
Peter Apfelbaum
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Peter Apfelbaum, master of a wide variety of instruments, founded the original 17-piece Hieroglyphics Ensemble in 1977 while a student at Berkeley High School, as a vehicle for composing and exploring non-traditional musical forms. The Grateful Dead championed the band, inviting them to open several of their shows. They secured a record deal with Antilles/Island and released Signs Of Life in 1990 (which received a Grammy nomination for the composition “Candles and Stones” and “Jodoji Brightness” in 1992.) The band won the 1992 Down Beat Critics Poll award for Big Band, Talent Deserving Wider Recognition. In February, 2003 he formed the 11-piece New York Hieroglyphics which performed last year at the Monterey Jazz Festival and at Yoshi’s.
Apfelbaum’s music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, the National Swedish Radio Orchestra of Stockholm, the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra, Harry Belafonte, Kamikaze Ground Crew and the Trey Anastasio Band, among others. He also continues to perform regularly with Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, and with many other artists.
- Aires de Sefarad
- Avi Avital
- Community Music Day
- Diaspora Blues
- Ensemble Lucidarium
- Klezmer Buenos Aires - Lerner Moguilevsky Duo
- Noa
- Opening Night: Musical Fortunes
- Pharaoh’s Daughter
- Poetry Slam on the theme of Diaspora
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
- Creative Work Fund
- East Bay Community Foundation-Fund for Artists
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Lufthansa German Airlines (Official Airline Sponsor)
- Koret Foundation
- Kurz Family Foundation
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund