The Joel Rubin Ensemble features Kálmán Balogh on cimbalom, David Chernyavsky on violin, and Claudio Jacomucci on accordion.
Instruments characteristic of the Ottoman café style included accordion, politiki (Constantinopolitan) lyra, clarinet, kanonaki, oud, santouri, tsimbalo, or cimbalom, violin, violoncello and finger-cymbals.
Music Events: festival premieres of Jan A.P. Kaczmarek’s “Yankiel’s Concerto” and “Open Window” (performed by Leszek Możdżer), concerts of: Byelorussian cimbalom players “Wasilinki”, Rozbitek Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Adam Banaszak), Silesian String Quartet (played Kaczmarek’s string quartets, including the Polish premiere of quartets from Hisako Matsui’s Japanese-American film “Leonie”), concert of Balanescu Quartet,