Feet on the floor, head in the air –
the festive and ritual music of the Eastern European Jews is an experience
for legs, ears and heart.
Music that has been modern for centuries; music that tells a story and makes
you dance.
nu plays klezmer music and
Yiddish songs.
Mr. Brinkmann (Bonn), clarinet and vocals, and Mr.
Kungl (Nuremberg), accordion, are klezmer musicians with international
renown whose music is a delight for a growing audience at festivals, concerts
and workshops.
The intimate duo lineup gives the vibrant music irresistible charm.
nu gives concerts and plays at parties, also providing dancing instruction.
nu conducts workshops for klezmer music and klezmer dancing.
nu appeared at the International Klezmer Festival in Fürth,
the Accordion Festival in Vienna, the Klezmer Festival in Bremen, the Yiddish
Summer Weimar, the Bamberger Klezmer Days, the Klezmer Festival Valley, the
Press Corps Ball in Berlin, the Rolandseck-Festival and the Music Days in
Lower Saxony.
nu published three CDs: "nu", "nu 2"
and "nu 3".
Mr. Brinkmann, clarinet and vocals, is a trained music therapist
and used to work in that profession. However, after a few years, his clarinet
reconquered him.
The "Junge Philharmonie" orchestra in Erlangen hired him as a classical
soloist to tour in Poland with them.
The Goethe Institute invited him to improvise an accompaniment for storytellers
in the U.S. and Canada.
He was employed as a stage musician and composer by theaters of Coburg, Erlangen,
Nuremberg, Augsburg and Cologne.
He founded the klezmergroup "huljet", which received a cultural
incentive award from the City of Fürth and traveled to Russia and Israel.
His love for klezmer music was deepened through many workshops, Yiddish songs,
and klezmer dance in places such as New York, Krakow, Montreal and Weimar;
this contributed to this music becoming his most important means of music,
expression and profession. He taught Klezmermusic at "yiddish summer
weimar", "International Klezmer Festival Fürth", "Jiddisch
Festival Leeuwarden", "Klezmertage Burg Fürsteneck" and
"Klezmertreff Mönchengladbach".
Brinkmann also plays with the groups "fir"; "Intercontinental
Klezmer Band"; "Rotterdam Klezmer Band" and is guest musician
at the groups "Wajlu" (D) and “Budowitz” (HU/USA).
In addition, he is involved in the storytelling theatre "Abenteuer aus
der Hosentasche" and at "imprompt – Forum für zeitgenössische
Musik Bonn".
Mr. Brinkmann lives, makes music, composes and teaches in Buschhoven, near
Bonn.
Mr. Kungl, accordion, is one of the small group of German
accordionists, who are well oriented in the Eastern Euopean Klezmer style.
He studied accordion at the Meistersinger-conservatoire Nuremberg. He was
concertmaster of the well known Nuremberg accordion orchestra and played as
a multi-instrumentalist on accordion, keyboard, saxophone and clarinet in
several pop and rock bands.
The contact and collaboration with accordionist, tsimbalist and music ethnologist
Joshua Horowitz (Budowitz, Veretski Pass) helped him synthesize his unmistakable
Klezmer style.
Emuk Kungl is currently playing with „Fialke“, „fir“
and in a duo with violinist and singer Monika Feil. He is also a guest musician
in Steven Greenman’s "Stempenyu's Dream".
He is working as an archivist and musical consultant at the radio station
Bayrischer Rundfunk.