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"Ikh hob nit gevust az du zingst azoy prekhtik sheyn. Emes vunderlakh." - Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky

Jane Peppler started performing Yiddish music in the early 1990s and was most inspired by the Vocal Master Classes of Adrienne Cooper and Zalman Mlotek. She directed the Triangle Jewish Chorale for 14 years and currently translates Yiddish novels and stories under the tutelage of Sheva Zucker. She studied early music at Yale University and played in the Yale School of Music orchestra and in the Locrian string quartet. She arranged music for the Yale Slavic Chorus and for Laduvane, a Balkan ensemble. She directed the Solstice Assembly, the Solstice Extravaganza, and performs with the world music ensemble Mappamundi and the British Isles duo the Pratie Heads. She has recorded over a dozen albums and published numerous songbooks.

Aviva Enoch received undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano at the University of Kansas and Emporia State University. She has studied jazz piano with Ed Paolantonio, and directed a small choir called "Morning Glory Voices" in an ecclectic mix of acapella songs from madrigals to doo-wop. She has accompanied singers, instrumentalists, and dancers in a variety of different settings, and played for weddings, parties, and seasonal events. Her family on both sides immigrated to the U.S. from Eastern Europe. Her great-grandparents spoke Yiddish as their first language. As a teenager, she and her family spent a couple of years in Israel, living on a kibbutz, immersed in the language and culture.