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Twenty seven year-old
clarinetist and saxophonist Alex Kontorovich was born in
Russia and currently resides in New York City. He has worked alongside
musicians such as Frank London, Brad Shepik, Steven Bernstein, Mike
Sarin, Theodore Bikel, Paul Shapiro, Paul Brody, Peter Apfelbaum,
Reuben Radding, Chris Washburne, Curtis Hasselbring, Dan Weiss,
Aaron Alexander, Brandon Seabrook, Matt Darriau, David Krakauer,
Margot Leverett, Alan Bern, Christian Dawid, Sanne Moricke, Michael
Alpert, Henry Sapoznik, Peter Sokolow, Fima Efron, J Granelli, Alicia
Svigals, and many others.
He has performed
all over the world at venues such as the Lincoln Center and Birdland
in New York; the Royal National Theatre in London; the National
Arts Centre in Ottawa; Planet Music in Vienna; the Hackesches Hoftheatre
in Berlin; the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow; and the Beer Festival
in Tel Aviv.

Numerous ensembles
have requested his talents onstage and in the recording studio,
including the National Arts Centre Orchestra; Jamie Begian's Big
Band; ska superstar King Django; Serbian brass legend Boban Markovic;
DJ SoCalled; and a slew of klezmer and world music groups such as
the Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, the Klez
Dispensers, Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, and Beyond the
Pale.
Alex's newest
project, Deep Minor, features all of his original compositions
and experiments with an improvisatory harmonic and structural interplay
between jazz and klezmer genres.

Alex is on the
faculty of the KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, the
Westchester Klezmer Program, the Klezmer Heritage Cruise and International
Klezmer Festival Furth, and produced a recording of the late legendary
Moldavian clarinetist German Goldenshteyn.
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