Alan Bern
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Alan Bern (1955-), born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, is the musical director of Brave Old World, and remains one of the leading lights in the teaching and revival of Yiddish music in the US, Canada and Europe since the late 1980's.
He has played with the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Andy Statman, Theodore Bikel, Giora Feidman, among many others. In 2006 he received his Ph.D in Composition from the Cincinnati Conservatory.
Since the 1990's he has been actively involved in organizing the Krakow Jewish Festival, (the world's largest of its kind) and also serves as the Artistic Director of Yiddish Summer Weimar.
His contributions to Yiddish music have been cited in important books on the revival of Jewish music, such as American Klezmer by Mark Slobin, The Essential Klezmer by Seth Rogovoy, Virtually Jewish by Ruth Ellen Gruber, and others.
With the Yiddish revival band Brave Old World he has appeared with Itzhak Perlman in the Emmy Award-winning film In the Fiddler's House, which in 1995 was broadcast throughout America on PBS, and has contributed to the two spin-off CDs In the Fiddler's House 1 & 2. He has also appeared on television on ZDF and ARTE (Germany).
