2025-2026 Season

Past Seasons (2009-2025)

September 14, 2025 | Host for Online Yiddish Song Marathon
Derek hosts an hour of the 10 hour marathon celebrating 125 years of the Workers Circle. More info here.

October 10, 2025 | Duet for Violin and Viola in NYC
Ensemble in Process will perform Chant Donné and Les Adieux from the Duet as musical interludes for their 3-Act Medieval Chronicles. More info here.

October 29, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Music Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville
Yiddish Music: From The Shul, To The Streets, To The Stage (And Back Again?), a lecture/discussion exploring the cultural relationship between religious and secular music within historic Ashkenazy communities. Course description here.

November 16, 2025, 4pm | ABV and Kolineu Concert
A Besere Velt, conducted by Derek David, performs on a collaborative concert with Kolineu at Congregation Kehillath Israel. Tickets here.

November 19, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Modes Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville

December 3, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Modes Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville

December 20-25, 2025 | Faculty at Yiddish New York
Conducting the Yiddish New York chorus and accompanying students in Judy Bressler's Private Vocal Coaching for Advanced Singers. Schedule here.

April 13-21, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight Tour
Rossini Club’s first ever tour spanning Colorado to New Mexico, featuring a clarinet quintet by Boston-based composer Derek David commissioned in 2022 by the Rossini Club, the work is an epic tour-de-force that explores themes of Jewish identity, simultaneously centered around Johann Christoph Bach’s choral motet O Welt, gute Nacht. Del Sol Quartet will be reprising in their collaborative role for this astonishing work.

April 18, 2026 | Song Cycle Premiere
New Gallery Concert Series presents the premiere of the Yiddish song cycle "Joy of the Yiddish Word" with soprano Rose Hegele. More info here.

May 10, 2026 | ABV Concert with Golden Thread