Hankus Netsky

Musical Artist

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Who is Hankus Netsky?

A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Hankus Netsky chairs the Contemporary Improvisation Departments at the New England Conservatory. Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble, and serves as research director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional Eastern European Jewish music. He has taught Yiddish music at New England Conservatory, Hebrew College, McGill University, and Wesleyan University and has lectured extensively on the subject in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has also designed numerous Yiddish culture exhibits for the Yiddish Book Center, where he served as Vice President for Education. His essays on klezmer music have been published by the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Scranton Press, the University Press of America, and Hips Road.

His film scores include, “Theo Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem,” “The Fool and the Flying Ship,” a Rabbit Ears children’s video narrated by Robin Williams, “The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans,” and “The Double Burden: Three Generations of Working Women.”. He adapted and composed the scores to the musicals “Shlemiel the First” and “King of the Schnorrers”and composed the incidental music for the NPR radio series, “Jewish Stories From Eastern Europe and Beyond.” His other significant compositions include “The Trees Of The Dancing Goats,” for Rabbit Airs Radio and “Chagall’s Mandolins,” commissioned by the Niew Sinfonietta of Amsterdam. Netsky is currently an instructor in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and Bachelors and Masters degrees in composition from New England Conservatory. He has also taught Yiddish Music at Hebrew College, the New England Conservatory, and Wesleyan University, and has lectured extensively on the subject in the US and abroad.

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  • Wesleyan University

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on July 23, 2013

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