Join us for a special evening celebrating the release of “Through the Walls”, the much-anticipated debut album from Anna Lowenstein, one of the UK’s leading klezmer fiddle players. This event is part of our Klez-March season.

This beautifully immersive performance draws on the melodies of Eastern European Jewish folk music, reimagined through the rich and expressive sound of a string quartet. Joyful, inventive, and deeply moving, “Through the Walls” invites you into a musical world shaped by memory, place, and community.

Anna and her quartet: Flora Curzon (violin), Meg Hamilton (viola), and Francesca Ter-Berg (cello; Fran&Flora, She’koyokh), perform with energy and warmth, recreating what Anna describes as the “sound world” of her childhood, in which the languages of Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich commingled with Yiddish music.

The album skillfully weaves in storytelling, interviews, and field recordings from Stamford Hill, bringing voices and lived experiences into the music. The result is an intimate portrait of a community, where the sounds you hear feel alive with people, stories, and history.

Join us for this unforgettable musical experience and be taken on a journey through the immersive sounds of the diaspora.

“Anna Lowenstein makes music to hear through walls, but also to break through them.” Adam Shatz

Anna Lowenstein- violinFlora Curzon – violinMeg Hamilton – violaFrancesca Ter – Berg- cello

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anna Lowenstein is a highly sought after performer and teacher of the Klezmer fiddle tradition. Notable appearances have included live sessions on BBC 3 Music Planet with Grammy award winning project YiddishGlory and as part of the onstage band for the European debut of Tony Award-winning play, Indecent (MenierChocolate factory, 2021). She has performed and taught nationally and internationally on Klezmer music festivals across the UK and Europe, sharing stage and faculty positions with acclaimed Klezmer and global folk musicians including Frank London, Alistair Fraser and Natalie Haas.