Adrienne Cooper

Internationally recognized as one of this generation’s stellar performers of Yiddish vocal music, Adrienne Cooper appears on concert, theater, and club stages around the world. Her singing has been featured on some twenty recordings as well as on film, TV and radio.

“Adrienne Cooper’s vocals can crack you up with laughter or wring your guts with heartbreak.” Rhythm Magazine“Cooper infuses songs with the vibrant depth of her splendid voice.”  -The New York Times

From the famed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to the Cracow Festival in Poland, from London to Jerusalem, she has mesmerized audiences and worked at the heart of the klezmer revival scene, performing and recording with, among others, The Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, jazz great Marilyn Lerner, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass AllStars Zalmen Mlotek, The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, and Mikveh - her virtuoso women’s klezmer ensemble. She is co-creator of groundbreaking works of Yiddish/English music theater – including the critically acclaimed “The Memoir of Gluckl of Hameln” and “Ghetto Tango.”

“Adrienne Cooper, the most lovely voice singing Yiddish today, transforms Yiddish songs into transcendent, sensual art, demonstrating awe-inspiring power and variety of musical imagination .”  -Klezmer Shack

Her inspired innovations in music and culture productions have been recognized by awards, grants and commissions from The Jewish Museum, United Synagogue, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National and New York State Endowments on the Arts, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is the recipient as well of Klez Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Yiddish Arts and Culture

“Cooper runs the gamut of moods with powerhouse. Cooper’s voice is deep and rich and versatile, ranging from jazzy, brazen, brassy to delicate and poignant, to a delivery that’s smooth as silk and deliciously arch.”     -Rambles, Cultural Arts Magazine