Link to the Show / Show Notes“Klezmer, Jazz, Classic - all these labels for music don’t mean a thing to me – it’s all music!”
This week we continue our conversation with the remarkable musician Giora Feidman.
It is over fifty years since the clarinettist he started his legendary musical career. Born in Argentina in 1936, his parents were Bessarabian Jews. Feidman comes from a family of Klezmer musicians - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather performed for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and holiday celebrations in the gated ghettos of central Europe. His first job at 18 was as clarinettist with the Teatro Colon Symphony and Opera Orchestra in Buenos Aires. Two years later he became the youngest clarinettist ever to play with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He left the orchestra in the early 1970s to begin his solo career and subsequently has collaborated and recorded with many of the worlds great musicians, be it in classical, jazz, tango or Klezmer, Feidman has developed a unique musical language. Indeed an encounter with Giora Feidman is like no other and in this the second of two special Inspired Minds, he talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the role culture and education play in our lives and the close relationship he has to music.
Interview: Breandáin O'Shea
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