Lenka Lichtenberg
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| Born | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
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| Occupation(s) | Composer, singer |
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Lenka Lichtenberg is a Canadian singer, composer, songwriter, and cantorial soloist of Czech-Jewish descent. She sings in Czech, English, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]She was born in Prague, into a family of Jewish origin. Most of her mother's family was murdered during the Holocaust.[2] At the age of nine, Lichtenberg became an actress at the Music Theatre Semafor in Prague.[3] She moved to Denmark, where she studied music at Aarhus Universitet and worked as a club singer.
In the 1980s, Lichtenberg moved to Canada and settled in Vancouver, where she continued her studies at the University of British Columbia (B.Ed., music, French), and sang in a rock band. She received her master's degree in ethnomusicology at York University in Toronto.
Career
[edit]Lichtenberg performs internationally at Jewish culture festivals, folk and world music festivals and concert series. She has released seven solo albums and numerous collaborative projects. She is a regular Shabbat service leader at the Darchei Noam Congregation in Toronto.
Director Jaroslav Hovorka made a documentary film for Czech TV about her, Lenka Lichtenberg: Pisne pro ozivle steny (2011).
Accolades
[edit]Lichtenberg has received numerous nominations and awards. In 2008 and 2012 she was the recipient of the Canadian Folk Music Award. Her latest project Thieves of Dreams placed at #36 at the Top 2022 Albums on World Music Charts Europe.
Discography
[edit]- 1999 - Deep Inside
- 2003 - Open the Gate
- 2006 - Pashtes with Brian Katz
- 2010 - Fray
- 2012 - Bridges with Roula Said
- 2012 - Songs for the Breathing Walls
- 2013 - Embrace
- 2014 - Lullabies from Exile with Yair Dalal
- 2016- Live in America
- 2017 - Yiddish Journey (Arc Music Productions)
- 2018 - Masaryk (Arc Music Productions)
- 2019 - Lenkkodek with Andrew McPherson
- 2022- Thieves of Dreams
References
[edit]- ^ "More Bio". Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ "Chanuka in Prague". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ^ Renee Ghert Zand. "Musical tour creates poignant (...)". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
External links
[edit]| International | |
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- Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada
- Jewish Canadian musicians
- Canadian people of Czech-Jewish descent
- Musicians from Prague
- Singers from Toronto
- Singers from Vancouver
- Yiddish-language singers of Canada
- Hebrew-language singers
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Canadian world music musicians
- Canadian Folk Music Award winners
- Canadian ethnomusicologists
- Canadian women musicologists
- Canadian women activists
- Jewish women singers
- Jewish women composers
- Women ethnomusicologists
- Jewish Canadian actresses
- Jewish women activists
- Juno Award for Global Music Album of the Year winners
- 21st-century Canadian women singers
- 21st-century Canadian Jews
- 21st-century Canadian composers
- 21st-century Canadian women composers