Musical Diaries from the Ghetto

Sunday, April 11 7PM
Fowler Hall, Stewart Center, Purdue University
Free and open to the public

Music composed by Jews living in Nazi Ghettos provides both personal and historical testimonies. The presentation includes an overview on various forms of music. We will witness the power of music in rare music recordings, documentary films, interviews and original art.

JWeekly.com: Composer takes music from the Holocaust to the classroom
April 30, 2009.

Performance Bios

Nurit Jugend, Composer

Nurit Jugend currently teaches at the Continuing Studies Education Program at Stanford University (USA). She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, namely the Arturo Toscanini Foundation Competition, Klon prize, Liebersohn award, Acum award, 2003-04 Giles Whiting Fellowship from the Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and 2007 Summer Composers Residency grant at Banff Centre (Canada).

Dr. Jugend founded the Concert-Gallery Event - a series of concerts featuring works by composers that also paint. This unique concept includes an artwork exhibition and live performance of music by composers such as Hindemith, Mendelssohn, Schönberg and her own work. Dr. Jugend has authored over a dozen published works, which have been performed worldwide namely in France, Israel, USA, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Slovenia, Iceland, Croatia and Austria. These performances include participation at the 2000 Luxembourg ISCM World Music Festival, Belgrade Festival for Contemporary Music (Slovenia), Tel-Aviv 2000 Biennale festival for Contemporary music (Israel), 2005 ISCM in Zagreb (Croatia) and many radio broadcasts.

Jugend completed her doctorate at Stanford University (USA), Masters in Art at the Hochschüle der Künste (Germany) and Bachelor in Music and Art at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy for Music and Dance (Israel).

Website
Voice of Silence (YouTube)

Edna Koren, Pianist

Pianist Edna Koren is both a soloist and chamber musician. She hAS toured the United States, Israel, Germany and the former Soviet Union. Ms. Koren appears frequently with members of the San Francisco Symphony and throughout the bay area, and has collaborated in recitals with members of the Chicago, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee symphonies and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. In additon to private teaching, she currently holds the position of orchestra pianist with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony.