When you study classical clarinet, you learn to play exactly what is written. You learn to play with steady, smooth sound and no vibrato.
Klezmer clarinet needs an entirely different approach. Putting in extra embellishments,
bends and glissandos in the tune will not make it immediately sound like Klezmer.
There is something more in it that a clarinet player is often not aware of.
Taking Klezmer clarinet lesson with Gregory Schechter will reveal all the tiniest secrets of the style and performance,
which will improve your overall technique bringing you closer to the original Klezmer played in Russia.
Since 1991, the Gregory Schechter Klezmer Band (also known as Klezmer Festival Band)
has played at hundreds of small and large venues,
produced several recordings
and appeared at many concerts and Folk Festivals throughout the UK and abroad.
