Ger Mandolin Orchestra in NYC

This Sunday December 8, 6pm ET, the Ger Mandolin Orchestra will perform at NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to close the NY Jewish Book Festival. The FREE performance will feature the US premiere of Marcin Masecki’s “Ger Suite,” first heard live in its world premiere at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio in March 2024.

Conceived by Israeli-American Avner Yonai and directed by renowned multi-instrumentalist Mike Marshall, the Ger Mandolin Orchestra brings to life a unique repertoire of Jewish, East European folk and light classical music using the complete range of mandolin family instruments. The group’s rare and moving concert appearances over the last dozen years have been met with overwhelming audience and critical acclaim. 

Now, in its first foray into contemporary music, the Orchestra is performing new music co-commissioned by Ashkenaz and POLIN Museum from one of Poland’s most prolific and idiosyncratic artists. Marcin Masecki‘s virtuosic fusion of styles spans jazz, classical, and folk, blurring the line between high art and popular entertainment, and delivering a wholly original take on the musical milieu of the Ger Mandolin Orchestra.

If you can’t make it to NYC, you can still experience this extraordinary program by livestream at this link. For a taste of whats to come, click here or the image below to listen to the group’s performance interview on Classical96FM, recorded at Toronto’s Zoomer Hall last March.