David Orlowsky's Klezmorim - Noema (2007)

David Orlowsky's Klezmorim:

The 25 years old clarinettist David Orlowsky and his Klezmorim trio show their virtuosity and versatility on their CD "Noema" linking elements of klezmer, classics and jazz to create a new musical style.
When he was 16 and had only been playing the clarinet for three years, he caught the attention of Giora Feidman in master classes and concerts. David Orlowsky in now a multiple prizewinner in the nationwide German young performers competition "Jugend musiziert" and is one of the most exciting clarinettist of his generation. Feidman gave Orlowsky his introductin to klezmer and the young clarinettist still feels a strong affinity with this way of making music. Klezmer remains the musical point of departure for "David Orlowsky's Klezmorim", the trio that Orlowsky founded in 1997
together with double bass player and composer Florian Dohrmann, now with Jens-Uwe Popp on guitar. The word "klezmorim" is the plural of "klezmer" and means "musicians".
The pieces on their debut CD are compositions by Orlowsky aand Dohrman who wrote most of the pieces in their repertoire. "Noema" was recorded with famous guest artists Avi Avital (mandolin), Per Arne Glorvigen (bandoneon) and Iveta Apkalna (organ).


David Orlowsky Trio:

The David Orlowsky Trio (previously David Orlowsky’s Klezmorim) is the 2008 ECHO Classical Prizewinner in the category “Classical without Boundaries.” The musicians received this award for their highly-calibred and innovative CD-debut Noema, which appeared on SONY CLASSICAL in 2007. David Orlowsky counts among the most extraordinary clarinettists of his generation. Together with bassist and composer Florian Dohrmann, he founded David Orlowsky’s Klezmorim in 1997, the trio that now also features Jens-Uwe Popp on the guitar. The distinctive sound of the Ensemble is especially influenced by the compositions of Orlowsky and Dohrmann. The ECHO Classical category “Classical without Boundaries” is an outstanding fit for the David Orlowsky Trio; the young musicians represent a highly cultivated and progressive style of music, which they title “chamber.world.music”. The ensemble takes what is often generically described as “world-music”, and elevates it to a level of consummate Art-music, in which realm the trio feels consciously committed to the highest international standards of chamber music. The musicians have defined new horizons, connecting folkloric clarity with harmonic and rhythmic complexity, thereby creating a soundscape of unmistakeable richness in colour. The empassioning result – already critically reviewed as “musical emotionality in its purest form” – brings the David Orlowsky Trio to regularly sold-out concert halls, thrilled reviews, and a steadily increasing following both at home and abroad. The David Orlowsky Trio has performed at the major festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein and the Rheingau music festivals, as well as the “Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele”. The trio was nominated for German Record Critic’s Award, and is now one of the ensembles leading the direction of new world music. The trio’s latest CD, Nessiah, appeared in fall 2008 – again on the SONY CLASSICAL label.


The Crew :

David Orlowsky, was born in Tuebingen in 1981 and is one of the most remarkable clarinettists of his generation. He began his musical training at the age of 10 as a percussionist, and changed to the clarinet three years later. In 1997 he attended a course taught by Giora Feidman, who was so impressed by the young artist’s talent that they subsequently gave several performances together. David Orlowsky has been among the prizewinners of the national youth music competition “Jugend musiziert” several times, and many concert tours with a variety of ensembles have taken him to countries as far apart as Scotland, Portugal and South Africa. He has appeared at a number of major festivals, e.g. the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and Gidon Kremer’s legendary Lockenhaus Festival 2005. He studied Classical clarinet with Manfred Lindner at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and with Charles Neidich and Ayako Hoshima at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Jens-Uwe Popp was born in Rendsburg in 1967, and studied Classical guitar in Lübeck and Hamburg. He has won several prizes in international chamber music competitions, and has worked together with such well-known artists as Efim Jourist, Christiane Edinger, Ulrich Tukur and Dominique Horwitz. He has been a member of the Giora Feidman Trio for many years, and gives concerts all over the world. Since 2005 he has been a member of the ensemble “David Orlowsky’s Klezmorim” to-gether with David Orlowsky and Florian Dohrmann.

Florian Dohrmann, born in Tuebingen in 1972, studied the double-bass at the Stuttgart College of Music, where his teachers were Thomas Stabenow and Dieter Ilg. He gradually developed his jazz-influenced style of composition, which plays a central role in the music of David Orlowsky’s Klezmorim. 2003 saw the successful première of his commission programme “Organ + Klezmer” in the Dortmund Konzerthaus, and the following year the publishing house Advance Music published a selection of his compositions in the collection Klezmania.