Walter Zev Feldman

Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer, cimbal (tsimbl). Feldman is a part-time associate professor at Bar-Ilan University in Tel-Aviv and a fellow of the Center for Jewish Music Research at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 2004 he co-directed the UNESCO application of the Mevlevi Dervishes as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. He co-produced the CD Tanburi Isak with the Bezmara Ensemble of Istanbul for EnChordais. In 2003 he curated the concert series "The Revival of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York" at the CUNY Graduate Center.