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About Charming Hostess
bullet Education
bullet Discography: Leader
bullet Film Work
bullet Discography: Sidemane
bullet Scores for Dance
bullet Commissions
bullet Grants & Fellowships
bullet Residencies
bullet Field Recordings

 
JEWLIA EISENBERG C.V.

EDUCATION

2004 Private study of Judeo-Andalusian song with R. Khaim Levi, Jerusalem
200 -03 Private composition lessons with Fred Frith, Mills College
1998 BA in Music, BA in History, University of California at Berkeley
1994 Formal training with sozanda Muna Nissimova, Bukhara
1992 Pair learning at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem


DISCOGRAPHY: AS A LEADER

2010 The Bowls Project, as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture
2010 HEAVENSHOW, as Charming Hostess. Porter Records
2005 Punch, as Charming Hostess. Recommended Records
2004 Sarajevo Blues, as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture
2004 Thick, with Red Pocket. Tzadik, Oracle Women’s Series
2002 Trilectic, as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture
1998 Eat, as Charming Hostess. Vaccination Records

These albums all build on the sounds of the body and how they make their homes in the Jewish and African diasporas. All five contain ambitious settings for voice, and all are deeply committed to text and traditional music.


FILM AND THEATER WORK

2009 - score for Antigone, by Ripe Time
2005 - on score of States of Unbelonging, by Lynne Sachs
2003 - Starface — Short film based on an Isaac Babel screenplay.
Adapted script, directed, scored.
2002 -
present
The Radical Film Project
New scores for silents with political content. Composed w/Devin Hoff.
1996 - on score of Story of Lillith, by Lynne Sachs
1995 - on score of Bad Jew by Eliza Engelberg



SCORES FOR DANCE

2005 The Grim Arithmetic of Water, choreographer Jo Kreiter
2003 Thirst, choreographer Jo Kreiter
1998 The Body Project, with Charming Hostess, choreographer Jo Kreiter
1997 Sparrow’s End, with Charming Hostess, choreographer Jo Kreiter
1995 The Traveller, with Charming Hostess, choreographer Stephanie Maher


COMMISSIONS

2008 Contemporary Jewish Museum for The Alef-Bet Project--HEAVENSHOW
2006 Sloan Foundation commissions opera, Mundi, about Kepler's mother
2005 Goethe Institut SF commissions Red Rosa, a setting of letters by Rosa Luxemburg


GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2008 NY State Arts Commission for Antigone
2008 Creative Work Fund for The Bowls Project
2008 San Francisco Arts Commmission for for Cafe Salonika aka Gramophone and Dynamo
2008 CEC Arts Link for The Bowls Project
2007 Meet the Composer for Red Posa
2006 Trust for Mutual Understanding grant for collaboration with poets in ex-Yugoslavia
2006 Puffin Foundation grant for Red Rosa
2005 Katzenstein Fellow — Artist-In-Residence at MIT — collaboration with experimental architects and engineers
2003 Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Grant for The Grim Arithmetic of Water, with choreographer Jo Kreiter
2004 Goldman Fund Tikea Fellow — project-based radical film and music work with youth
2001 Weisz Fellow for field research and recording among Jewish women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia


ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2007 Headlands Center for the Arts residency
2006 Djerassi residency
2006 CalArts/Alpert Award Ucross residency


TEACHING RESIDENCIES

2008 Denver University, Franklin and Marshall College
2006 2007 CalArts
2006 CalArts/Alpert Award Ucross residency

Julia Eisenberg is a common mispelling of Jewlia Eisenberg, the composer of Charming Hostess.
FIELD RECORDINGS

1990, 1996 Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
1991 Greece, Turkey
1992 Israel, Egypt, Jordan
1994 Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
1998 Italy, Tunisia
2001 Mali, Ethiopia, Zanzibar

 

DISCOGRAPHY: AS A SIDEMAN

2005 Abraham’s Garden with Israeli and Palestinian Musicians for Peace
2005 Admiral Ted Brinkleys…with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven
2003 Voices in the Wilderness — A Tribute to Masada
2003 Great Jewish Composers — Sasha Argov
2002 For the Love of Wayne with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven
2001 Jettison Slinky with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven
1999 Gurney to the Lincoln Center of Your Mind with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven

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