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Alex Jacobowitz was born on 19 May, 1960 in New York City, is an American musician and street performer. Discover Alex Jacobowitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Street performer
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 19 May, 1960
Birthday 19 May
Birthplace New York City
Nationality United States

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1960

Alex Jacobowitz (born 19 May 1960 in New York) is a classically trained concert artist and street performer who plays the marimba and xylophone.

1980

During the early 1980s he studied music at the State University of New York at Binghamton, studying marimba privately with Gordon Stout at Ithaca College, John Beck at the Eastman School of Music and privately with Leigh Howard Stevens.

Soon thereafter, he began a busking career in the late 1980's, playing on the streets of New York City, including at Lincoln Center's "Meet the Artist" program, Yeshiva University, Zabar's, Central Park, the 84th Street Synagogue, International House, the New York Hilton, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Coney Island's "Sideshows by the Seashore".

1981

Alex Jacobowitz commissioned Edith Borroff to compose "Concerto for Marimba and Small Orchestra" in 1981, and it was premiered on November 23, 1981 with the State University of New York at Binghamton's University Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Paul Jordan.

This work might be the first marimba concerto composed by a woman.

He won competitions in Montreal (1981), Lucerne (1994), Ludwigsburg (2004) and Osnabrück (2007).

1984

From 1984-1989 he was an Official Street Performer at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan, a member of Musicians Under New York, and Young Audiences of Rochester and the Northeast Intermediate Unit (Pennsylvania).

He has performed at Arts Councils and Imagination Celebrations throughout New York State.

He has performed on Entertainment Tonight, and has been an artist-in-residence at Artpark (New York) and Holland Village (Japan).

He received his Master's Degree in Music Performance in 2021

from Ithaca College in New York.

1991

In 1991, he moved to Europe, mainly performing in Germany, and living in Berlin.

Jacobowitz performed classic and Jewish traditional music on German television (ARD, ZDF, Third Programmes), and occasionally in Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, South Korea, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.

1994

In 1994, he began the study of traditional Jewish instrumental music (klezmer) with Giora Feidman.

1997

In 1997, he saw Brave Old World in concert, and trained under Alan Bern, their musical director.

Solo klezmer appearances include festivals in Jerusalem, Schleswig-Holstein, Safed, Kraków, Fürth, Bamberg, synagogues throughout Germany, including Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue in Berlin, Chabad Houses in Prague, Geneva, Zürich, the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Hackescher Hoftheater in Berlin, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Kibbutz Ma'ale HaChamisha, and settlement Mitzpe Jericho.

He has performed with Shelly Lang's Neginah

Orchestra (NYC), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Kammerphilharmoniker.

2002

His Art of Xylos CD was released in 2002 by Sony-BMG under the Arte Nova label, and was nominated for the Echo Prize under the crossover category.

2006

In 2006, he was invited to perform at the Busker's Festival in Ferrara, Italy, and his music was often featured in radio, including NPR in the USA, Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany and SFR1 in Switzerland.

2010

Since 2010 he has been performing klezmer music with violinists Yona (Stas) Rayko or Mark Kovnatskiy at Jewish cultural festivals throughout Europe.

2011

He has performed Jewish music at Pisa's Jewish Festival (Italy, 2011) Sydney's Shir Madness festival (Australia, 2010), the Warsaw Jewish Festival (Poland, 2012),

2012

the Trondheim Jewish Culture Festival (Norway, 2012), the Düsseldorf Jewish Film Festival (2012, Germany), the Budapest Jewish Film Festival (Hungary, 2012)

2013

and the 4th Munich (München) Jüdische Filmtage (Jewish Film Festival, January 2013), the Jewish Cultural Days in Vienna (2014), Jewish Week in Leipzig (2015).

At Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2013 he premiered Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph's "Hebrotica" for solo marimba, a work dedicated to him.

2015

In 2015, 2018 and 2020 he was accepted to the Central Council of Jews in Germany's (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschlands) Artist Roster, which provides German government funding for his concerts in Jewish communities there; in August 2017 he was featured in their newspaper, the Jüdische Allgemeine.

2017

Aug 2017, Berlin

2019

In 2019 he was declared a National Artist in Israel.

http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/29408 - Jüdische Allgemeine, 24.

2020

He has premiered Danse la princesse Dunya, a work for solo marimba by French composer Serge Bach in 2020, and commissioned and premiered Alan Bern's solo marimba work Gedanken (2021).

He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer award.

https://juedischerundschau.de/article.2020-11.goerlitz-und-der-davidstern.html - Interview with Jüdischer Rundschau, Nov. 2020, Berlin