“Melodically speaking, these are some of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard in recent years.”
-Frédéric Cardin, Pan M 360
Between past and present: Canadian Yiddish poetry and contemporary chamber music.
Musicians :
Elvira Misbakhova | alto
Sheila Hannigan | chello, voice
Maël Oudin | double bass, voice, musical direction
Henri Oppenheim | voice, piano, guitar, compositions
Contact (booking): Milan Simas – diffusion@centredesmusiciens.com
Tur Malka – The King’s Mountain is a musical and memorial project led by Henri Oppenheim. He sets little-known texts from Canada’s Yiddish poetic heritage to music and transforms them into original, contemporary, and accessible songs. Henri’s deep, warm voice is accompanied by piano and a string trio (viola, cello, double bass), giving the show a rich and intimate chamber music ambiance.
The program features lyrical ballads, more rhythmic songs, and festive klezmer escapades that bring energy and humor. Between moments of gravity and passages of light, Tur Malka offers a concert where poetry and music respond to each other, and where Yiddish memory is brought to life, vibrant and shared.
Henri Oppenheim is a composer, singer, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist… and doctor of mathematics, a degree he refers to as a relic of a distant past. Founder of Magillah, after a long journey that began in 2002 with the klezmer ensemble Kleztory, he has developed a body of work in which the instrumental music of his ancestors has gradually given way to poetry in the Yiddish language, in a deeply creative tension between memory and modernity. His compositions have long been performed by seasoned musicians and singers.
Demo reel
Piece – Landshaft
