January 2025

Join us for a night of Klezmer! The celebratory and soulful music of 19th Century Eastern Jewish Music.

With four fabulous musicians who are at Halsway Manor teaching musicians on their Klezmer course the modes, melodies, rhythms, and ornamentation that give Klezmer its unique flavour. Susi, Szilvia, Indra and Flora are all exceptional musicians who are passionate about the tradition of klezmer music. Susi and Szilvia perform internationally and are in demand as teachers at the major klezmer festivals such as Yiddish Summer Weimar, Klezfest London, Yiddish New York and KlezKanada. They are also the authors of the Klezmer Playbook and founders of the KlezmerPlaybook CLUB where they regularly have up to 100 participants attending their online workshops. Susi Evans (clarinet) graduated as a classical music student from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2004. She has been playing klezmer and Balkan music since 2001 with her UK-based bands She’Koyokh and the London Klezmer Quartet. She has been described as “one of the best klezmer clarinettists of our day” (Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine) and was crowned “the Queen of Klezmer” by the Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain. In 2020 she won second prize in the International Clarinettist Corona Competiton. Susi is also a keen accordionist playing with the klezmer band Loshn, and dedicates her time to studying Bulgarian and Serbian clarinet styles as well as playing the Gaida (Bulgarian bagpipes) and the Frula (Serbian flute). Szilvia Csaranko (accordion & piano) was born in Hungary to a family of professional classical musicians. She trained in classical piano and graduated from the University of Hildersheim in