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Stu Warshauer - Fiddler, Director
Stu studied classical violin for 10 years starting at the age of 6. After
college, where he played in the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, he found that he had
to devote himself to his business career and helping to raise his 4 children,
one of which is developmentally disabled. In the 1980's he heard Klezmer music
and it turned him on and back to his fiddle. He joined the Seven Hills
Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra and became the fiddle player for the Cincinnati
Klezmer Project when it was formed in 1993. When Stu moved to Naples in 1998,
he started pursuing his dream of a second career in music, founding the Naples
Klezmer Revival band. Stu still enjoys playing the violin he received for his
Bar Mitzvah over 50 years ago and has never owned or desired owning a different
instrument.
Perry Switzen - Bass
Guitar
"Perry studied bass
guitar at a music school on Long Island, N.Y. for many years. He
proceeded to play with several garage and basement jam bands. He
finally came out of the basement to play base guitar for the classic
Rock band "Short Term Memory", performing in clubs and a t festivals on
Long Island. When asked to become a member of "Blue Condition", Perry
leaped at the chance to play Blues as well as Rock. He made an even
greater leap when he joined the Naples Klezmer Revival band. Growing up
in the New York area, Klezmer was the music and Yiddish the language
that his parents and grandparents listened to on
WEVD "The station that speaks your language".
Rabbi Dan Friedman - Trumpet
Rabbi Dan Friedman
returned to trumpet playing seven years ago after a
hiatus of 35 years. As a high school and college student, he loved playing in dance bands in his
native Denver and in the Boston area, but in rabbinical school he no longer had time to practice and put his horn
away. Upon his retirement in 2000 he picked it up again and now enjoys his hobby more than ever, both in
Naples and in Lincolnshire, Illinois, where he spends the summer and is busy playing in several swing and
jazz groups.
Arnold
Saslavsky - Percussion
Arnold has a Bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory of Music
and a Master's of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music. In
Naples, he is the drummer for Stan Spiro's The Townsmen Orchestra and
the Gulf Coast Big Band in addition to his work with the Naples Klezmer
Art Isenberg - Keyboard
After having studied classical piano for 10 yrs, Art Isenberg turned
his talent to more popular and modern music. He has worked
with bands in Boston (joining the Musicians Union when he was 17), and
then in Schenectady, NY, where he organized a wedding/bar/bat
mitzvah band with special emphasis on Jewish ethnic
music. The band entertained for about 30
years, played for shows and accompanied artists.
Having moved to Naples about 4 years ago, he joined the Naples Klezmer
Revival band and also performs singles at hotels,
homes, private parties, country clubs from Sanibel to Marco.
Martin Cohn - Clarinet
Grew up in Chicago and studied clarinet since age 10. Played in his
high
school orchestra and with an interest in jazz, intermittently
afterward.
Recently introduced to the Naples Klezmer Band – a wonderful
group of musicians from whom to learn and grow. When he is not playing
the clarinet, he is an active physician in Naples and specializes in
conditions related to sleeping problems. He is also the webmaster of
this site.
Richard
Johnson - Accordianist
Richard started accordion lessons at age 6 when his parents found out that the
piano they had rented didn't fit up the stairway to their second floor dwelling.
Continued accordion lessons (primarily classical music) for 12 years despite
moving to a house with a first floor. Started playing jazz on the accordion and
piano in high school. Worked his way through college, medical school and
neurology residency playing jazz piano and accordion with small groups in night
clubs and other venues in Minneapolis. After retirement from practicing
neurology for 30 years found more time for music once again. Has played Klezmer
music in the past with the "Klezmedics" in the Twin Cities. Also plays cello in
several amateur chamber ensembles in Minneapolis. Has been with the Naples
Klezmer Revival band for three years.
Jane Galler - Guitar, Vocalist
Jane is one of the busiest musicians in Naples. She is
the Cantorial Soloist for the Naples Jewish Center, the Music Director of the
Temple Shalom Religious School; a teacher in the Temple Shalom Nursery school
and has a cadre of over 20 private students whom she teaches guitar, piano, and cello.
She is a founding member of the Naples Klezmer Revival band, and is often called
the "heartbeat" of the band because she sets the tempo for most of the
repertoire.