Jake Shulman-Ment is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer performers. He tours, records, and teaches internationally; he has spent two decades traveling and living between New York and Eastern Europe, learning traditional violin styles and researching old Jewish music from master fiddlers. Jake weaves these experiences into his solo performances, speaking to audiences intimately through his singular voice on the violin and singing Yiddish folk songs of philosophy, love, and resistance. He shares historical, cultural, and personal context that illuminates the music as a thread linking past to present, traversing generations and migrations.
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Bio: Born in New York City, violinst Jake Shulman-Ment is “considered one of the finest klezmer fiddlers on the planet” (NPR). He has toured and recorded internationally as a soloist, and with Midwood, Daniel Kahn, Frank London, Di Naye Kapelye, Joey Weisenberg, Laurel Premo, Roashka, Duncan Sheik, and many others. His most recent release, Two Strings (Borscht Beat, 2025), is a ground-breaking collaborative re-imagination of klezmer fiddle style with Abigale Reisman.
A widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition, Jake has been a faculty member of KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Fiddle Tunes, Yiddish New York, and other festivals throughout the globe. You might have also caught him being featured in Csaba Bereczki’s full-length documentary film Soul Exodus, or performing onscreen in HBO’s Succession or Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. Jake’s debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.