Music Of The Jewish Diaspora

“Music of the Jewish Diaspora”, featuring David Aaron Carpenter (viola) and soloists of the Salomé Chamber Orchestra. Works include Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words in G Minor; Hatikvah (traditional); Kreisler’s Liebeslied, Caprice Viennois and Hora Staccato; Gershwin’s Summertime; Oran Eldor’s Sephardic Prayer; Alexey Shor’s 740 Samba, Chicken Tarantella, Semi Canonical Great Feud and Murka Variations (by Shor and Eldor); Monti’s Czardas; “Ljova” Lev Zhurbin’s Budget Bulgar.

David Aaron Carpenter is one of the most charismatic and admired young musicians of his generation. Called “stunningly talented” by The New Yorker, and “the hottest violist of the 21st Century” by cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht, Carpenter's great mentor Pinchas Zukerman has said, “It’s like Pele with a football, or Federer with a tennis racket – that’s David Aaron Carpenter with a viola”.

“This concert feels very dear to me for all sorts of reasons,” says Carpenter, “To make my London debut by reclaiming this iconic Jewish venue in this city that I love is very close to my heart, the more so because I feel this music. In many ways, my family and I are this music. It’s our story. And you know what else? The music is great.”