Christian Dawid is an internationally noted reed player. Trained classically, he explores styles from Jazz to Alpine Brass, specializing in Yiddish and East European folk music. He runs Trio Yas and the Ukrainian hipster brass band Konsonans Retro, and performed with such artists as Boban Markovic, Frank London, Socalled, Alan Bern, OPA!, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, Arkady Gendler, Brave Old World, Shura Lipovsky, Theodore Bikel, Yuriy Gurzhy, Lorin Sklamberg, forshpil, Paul Brody’s Sadawi and The Other Europeans, on stages between North America, Europe and Japan.

A dedicated and sought-after teacher of Yiddish music, Christian Dawid has conducted and conceptualised numerous workshops at international festivals and workshop academies, in Weimar, London, Paris, Montreal, Fürth, New York, Safed, Cracow, St Petersburg, Buenos Aires and many other places. He regularly works as an advisor to international Jewish culture festivals. H e also works as an arranger and composer. He lives in Berlin.

www.christiandawid.com

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