ZALMEN MLOTEK (Artistic Director - National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene) is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. Mr. Mlotek brought Yiddish-Klezmer music to Broadway and off-Broadway stages as a co-creator, music director, and conductor of Those Were the Days, the first bilingual music honored with a Drama Desk Award and nominated for two Tony Awards. He was co-creator, music director and conductor for the The Golden Land, an off-Broadway hit that toured nationally and was produced in Italy under the sponsorship of Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Mlotek was the arranger and music director for Isaac Bashevis Singer and Robert Brustein's acclaimed production of Shlemiel The First at Lincoln Center's Serious Fun Festival in 1995 that subsequently toured to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston, and recently performed in Washington DC. He is the Artistic Director of The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, America's only Yiddish theater. He instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English supertitles at all performances and this year Russian supertitles as well. The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is dedicated to bringing quality performances of the spoken and sung Yiddish word, with accessible translation, to new audiences around the country. Their recent smash hit, On Second Avenue, an historical musical overview of the heyday of the Yiddish Theater recently nominated for two Drama Desk awards was performed in Los Angeles in February 2007. In 1995 Mr. Mlotek conceived and was musical director for the first All Star Klezmer Extravaganza at Lincoln Center, filmed by PBS for Great Performances and later released on CD and video as In The Fiddler's House with Itzhak Perlman. Mlotek has concertized in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and other cities in Europe and Israel and has performed extensively throughout North America. His many recordings include several made at the request of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mlotek's many recordings include several made at the request of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. His tribute to wartime Yiddish Theater, which he conceived in collaboration with Adrienne Cooper is performed all over the world and is available on the Traditional Crossroads label. In addition, his Yiddish choral work can be heard on Mandy Patinkin's Yiddish language CD, Mameloshen on Nonesuch Records. Mr. Mlotek is Director of Arts Programming at the Center for Cultural Jewish Life of the Workmen's Circle, and is the conductor of The New Yiddish Chorale. (newyiddishchorale.org) Mr. Mlotek has presented master classes in Yiddish art songs, folk, and theater music and taught at Columbia University, Yeshiva University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Bar Ilan University.

FRANK LONDON A member of the Grammy award winning Klezmatics, acclaimed composer/trumpeter Frank London has  composed music for the Jewish folk-opera s Green Violin (winner, Barrymore Award 2003) and A Night in the Old Marketplace,  the song-cycle An Alphabet in the Sky, Tony Kushner's A Dybbuk, John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet,  and Pilobolus Dance Theater's Davenen.  His trumpet is featured on over 250 recordings, including LL Cool J, David Byrne, John Zorn, Jane Siberry, Itzhak Perlman and on Sex and the City.

BRIAN DRYE Trombonist and Pianist Brian Drye has performed throughout the US, Eastern Europe, Japan, and Turkey with a variety of groups from Klezmer, Balkan, Jazz and Chamber Groups.Brian is currently the director of Jazz Studies at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music in Tenafly, NJ and is a partner in the Creative Music Workshop, a new improvised music program for students based in NYC.

DAVID SOLOMON Past credits include live performance with Bette Midler, Cindy Lauper, Marc Anthony, The 5th Dimension, Bobby Caldwell, Al Jarreau, Chubby Checker...  Staff arranger with TV's "The Singing Bee" show.  Recently making his mark on the Jewish Music scene performing with Avraham Fried, M.B.D., Yeshiva Boys Choir, Le Chevra, Dovid Gabay, Eli Gerstner etc.  Dave is excited and looking forward to performing with this highly talented and accomplished group of performers!

AARON ALEXANDER has performed and recorded with Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, The Klezmatics, German Goldenshteyn, Alex Kontorovich, and leads the group Midrash Mish Mosh. He is the proud Tate of a new baby, Ariella Carmen.

BRIAN GLASSMAN is an in-demand bassist in Klezmer, Jazz and other genres who has performed and recorded with artists like Andy Statman, Randy Brecker, Neshama Carlebach, Alicia Svigals, and John Pizzarelli among others. Brian is also an Instructor of Jazz Bass at Princeton University.

MARGOT LEVERETT Margot's current project, "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" is an all-star band combining the best of bluegrass and klezmer. Her music has been choreographed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Margot was a featured soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra this year. www.KlezmerMountainBoys.com