2024 Scholar In Residence

January 19 - January 21

Featuring Bret Werb, Simon Wynberg, and Elad Kabilio 

Join us for an extraordinary weekend of learning and music, as we bring together two of the world's leading musicologists, as well as renowned musicians, to explore the Jewish music of exile, resistance, and resilience. This weekend is in collaboration with Holocaust Music Lost & Found (HMLF). 
 

Click on the links below for more details and registration. Scroll down for more information about the our collaborators, scholars, and musicians.

• Friday, January 19th - Daven & Dine
• Saturday, January 20th - Shabbat Shiur
• Saturday, January 20th - Stories Through Music from the Holocaust
• Sunday, January 21st - Brunch & Learn

Collaborators, Scholars, and Musicians

HMLF’s Mission

Holocaust Music Lost & Found was founded to illuminate and share music written during the Holocaust in concentration camps and ghettos and music written in exile. By sharing these works through both concerts and education, we seek to inspire others and raise awareness of the extraordinary power of music to lift the human spirit and counter antisemitism and hate. 

Bret Werb

Bret Werb serves as the Musicologist and Recorded Sound Curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, helping to build and organize an archive and reference service used by researchers worldwide. He has programmed the Museum’s chamber music series, curated its online exhibition Music of the Holocaust, and produced and annotated four CDs of ghetto, camp and resistance songs for the Museum. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, The Journal of Musicology, Musica Judaica, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, and other scholarly books and periodicals, Werb was the recent recipient of the Aquila Polonica Prize for Best Article on Polish Studies for his journal essay (co-authored with Barbara Milewski), “Chopin’s Żydek, and Other Apocryphal Tales.”  Werb holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology (UCLA), lectures widely, and has collaborated on numerous theater, film, recording, and concert projects.

Simon Wynberg 

Simon Wynberg has been the Artistic Director of the ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) since 2003. This ensemble, comprised of Canada’s leading instrumentalists has emerged as one of the country’s leading cultural ambassadors. Nominated for its third Grammy Award in 2016, the ARC Ensemble has appeared at major festivals in Budapest, Bucharest, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, the Stratford Festival, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore and Cadogan Halls and Washington's Kennedy Center. Under Wynberg’s supervision, the ensemble has built an international reputation for its research and recovery of a vast corpus of music lost or marginalized due to political suppression. Its “Music in Exile” series, dedicated to composers who fled the Third Reich, has been presented in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Rome, Toronto, New York and London, and a growing number of 20th century masterworks are rejoining the repertoire as a result of the ARC Ensemble's pioneering recordings and performances. Its tenth recording devoted to the music of Robert Müller-Hartmann will be released in November, 2023. Simon Wynberg is directly responsible for the ensemble’s success, its repertoire, planning, public relations, fundraising, and overall strategy. Prior to his work at The Royal Conservatory, Wynberg was Artistic Director of a number of successful Music Festivals: the Guelph Spring Festival in Canada, Music in Blair Atholl, Scotland, and the Strings over the Caribbean Festival in the Bahamas. Parallel to these responsibilities he enjoyed a busy career on both sides of the Atlantic as a classical guitarist, working with ensembles such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Gabrieli String Quartet. Now retired from performing, his many recordings continue to receive airplay around the world. Born in Edinburgh, Wynberg has lived in Toronto since 1991. He has a Masters in Music from London University.

Elad Kabilio

Praised by The New York Times for his playing “vibrantly”, “full of texture and nuance”, and with “marvelous imagination”, Israeli cellist Elad Kabilio is an active soloist, chamber musician and teaching artist. Among his recent performances are Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Morgan Library, and the Joyce Theater in New York City. He has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Young Artist Festival in Bayreuth, Germany and was featured on WQXR Radio. Kabilio collaborates frequently with dancers from top ballet companies such as New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theater, and served as the Music Director of Ballet Next (2011-2014). He currently serves as the Music Director of the Ashley Bouder Project based in New York City. Kabilio has taught in numerous schools both in Israel and New York City, and is currently teaching at Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege Division, Distance Learning program, and MSM Summer. Kabilio is committed to bringing music to new audiences and is the founder of MusicTalks, a chamber music series devoted to breaking down the barriers between musicians and audience by taking advantage of the intimacy that chamber music provides. Kabilio has received numerous awards throughout his career. He was selected by the Israel Ministry of Culture as an “Outstanding Musician” and served in the Israeli Army as a member of the Israeli Defense Force string quartet, performing concerts throughout Israel. He was awarded second prize at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music string competition where he also received the “Orchestra Excellence Award” from Maestro Zubin Mehta. Kabilio has performed with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, on tours in Europe and the US. He has also performed with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Itzhak Perlman and JoAnn Falletta. Kabilio studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel-Aviv University, where he received both his Bachelors and Master of Music degrees. He is a graduate of Mannes College of Music in New York City and Manhattan School of Music where he received a Professional Studies Diploma. Principal teachers include Zvi Plesser, Hillel Zori, Marcy Rosen, and Julia Lichten. Kabilio is playing on a French cello on generous loan from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

John Wilson

Described by Gramophone as having “a wide spectrum of touch and dynamics ... appealing gravity  and circumspection”, American pianist John Wilson has performed extensively in North America, and  as a soloist he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of New York, New  World Symphony, Classical Music Institute Orchestra of San Antonio, Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra,  and both the New Amsterdam Symphony and Orchestra Camerata Notturna in New York, NY. He most  recently won 1st prize in the 2019 International Respighi Prize Competition. He will perform on the 2024 and has performed on the 2023 European tour with the San Francisco  Symphony performing chamber and orchestral works under Mo. Esa-Pekka Salonen and on the  2018 Carnegie Hall Tour under Michael Tilson Thomas. He has appeared in chamber ensembles with  musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal  and, and has appeared in recital with violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Johannes Moser, violinist Anthony  Marwood and sopranos Audra McDonald and Bernadette Peters.  John is pianist at the San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Principal Keyboard of Marin  Symphony, and has performed as Guest Principal Keyboard of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He  makes his Marin Symphony debut in April 2024 playing Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with Mo.  Daniel Stewart. John has recently released his second album on Avie Records, Rachmaninoff • Gershwin:  Transcriptions by Earl Wild.