Zalmen Mlotek

Zalmen Mlotek (Yiddish: זלמן נתן מלאטעק, born June 15, 1951 in the Bronx, NY) is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

Zalmen Mlotek is the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest continuously running Yiddish theatre in the United States.[1] Mlotek received his formal training as a classical conductor at the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied under Leonard Bernstein; he also studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes School of Music.[2][3] Mlotek brought Yiddish and Klezmer music to the Broadway and Off-Broadway stages with musicals he co-wrote including the Tony-nominated Those Were the Days,[4] The Golden Land,[5] and On Second Avenue.[6]

Mlotek is the son of Joseph Mlotek and Eleanor Chana Mlotek (née Gordon). His father was the education director at the Workmen's Circle, an American Jewish civic and cultural organization, and an editor at the Yiddish Forward. His mother was an archivist of Yiddish music, who, together with her husband, published three Yiddish songbooks.[7]

Mlotek is a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "History | NYTF – Folksbiene". nytf.org. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  2. ↑ "A Musical Theater Performer's Crash Course in Yiddish". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  3. ↑ "Zalmen Mlotek - Yiddish Music & Theater". zalmenmlotek.com. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  4. ↑ "Those Were the Days, Edison Theatre". Playbill. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  5. ↑ "Nominees and Recipients | Drama Desk". dramadesk.org. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  6. ↑ "2005 Drama Desk Awards Presented". TheaterMania.com. Retrieved 2017-07-28.
  7. ↑ Berger, Joseph (November 4, 2013). "A Yiddishe Momme of Music, Chana Mlotek, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-10-29. Print version 5 November 2013, p.24.
  8. ↑ Palmer, Joanne. "'Yiddish Soul': Zalmen Mlotek’s third annual Jewish roots concert to play in Central Park this week", The Jewish Standard, June 8, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2018. "It’s produced by the Folksbiene, which is headed by musician, Yiddishist, musicologist, and impresario Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck"


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