D. Zisl Slepovitch

D. Zisl Slepovitch is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States since 2008. He is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music), with primary interest in the Eastern European Jewish music culture; a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvised music performer (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals); composer, conductor, music and Yiddish educator. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Litvakus, Zisl Slepovitch Trio, and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. Slepovitch has served in multiple roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest), and is now Musician-in-Residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. Slepovitch has taught Yiddish language and culture at The New School, worked as an educator and Artist-in-Residence at BIMA at Brandeis University, and a guest artist and lecturer at many US and international academic and cultural institutions and festivals. Slepovitch’s theater, film, and TV contributions include Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway). @zislepovitch