Joel E . Rubin

Joel Rubin is Associate Professor (Music/Jewish Studies) and Director of Music Performance in the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. He is also Adjunct Researcher at in the Institute of Musicology and the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City, University of London (2001). He is author of the monograph, "New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras" (2020), co-author of the books “Klezmer-Musik” (1999) and “Jüdische Musiktraditionen” (Jewish Musical Traditions, 2001) and the author of “Mazltov! Jewish-American Wedding Music for Clarinet” (1998). Recent work has appeared in "Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture" (2014) and in Ethnomusicology Forum. Rubin wrote the notes to the CD anthology, Chekhov’s Band: Eastern European Klezmer Music from the EMI Archives 1908-1913 (2015). He is an internationally acclaimed performer of klezmer music and has recorded numerous CDs, most recently The Magid Chronicles (2019). He performs regularly with Veretski Pass and the Joel Rubin Ensemble, and was a founding member of the pioneering klezmer-Yiddish revival group, Brave Old World.
Address: Charlottesville, Virginia
Bünzen, Switzerland
http://joelrubinklezmer.com