Meira Warshauer News

September/October 2026

Meira’s Yiddish Fantasy Performed at University of South Carolina on October 7 

Meira’s Yiddish Fantasy will be performed on October 7 @ 7:30 PM by violinist Dr. Ari Streisfeld and pianist Lynn Kompass as part of Streisfeld’s Echoes of Identity Faculty Recital program of Jewish composers at University of South Carolina’s School of Music 206 Recital Hall, 813 Assembly Street in Columbia, SC.


The piece is an arrangement of several Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes which were popular among the Jews of Eastern Europe at the turn of the century.


Other works on the program will be Sonata in G by Paul Ben-Haim, Inscriptions by Shulamit Ran, Baal Shem by Ernest Bloch and Berceuse Sfaradite by Paul Ben-Haim.


See a video below with Streisfeld and Kompass performing Yiddish Fantasy in Sumter, SC in March, 2025.

Also, see a recently posted video below of mezzo soprano Mariya Kaganskaya and pianist Alla Gladysheva's May 3, 2026 performance of Meira's Rachel Weeps presented by San Francisco's Interfaith Center at the Presidio in honor of their 30th anniversary.

About Meira Warshauer


Meira Warshauer’s music has been performed to critical acclaim and heard on broadcast and online media worldwide. At its core, Meira’s music expresses her personal spiritual journey and love for the earth. 

 

Performers and commissioners include orchestras, choruses, chamber ensembles and soloists from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Dr. Warshauer has received many awards, including an American Prize (2019) in orchestra composition for her Symphony Living Breathing Earth, and the American Prize Charles Ives Award in Chamber Music (2024) for Ocean Calling, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Hambidge Center, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. 


Her most recent album release is Ocean Calling, a trilogy of environmentally-themed works works for two pianos, recorded for Navona Records. Two CDs with her choral music, Coro del Mundo and Chevere, were recorded in Cuba, and have been released on the Ansonica label. Navona previously released Living Breathing Earth, a CD (NV5842) featuring Symphony Living Breathing Earth and Tekeeyah (a call), concerto for shofar, trombone and orchestra with soloist Haim Avitsur. Parma has also released Five Reflections for string quartet on their Strung Together collection and Albany Records had released her acclaimed Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works. Elijah’s Violin, her family opera based on a Jewish-Egyptian fairy tale, was presented in a semi-staged production in San Francisco in 2019.


Warshauer's music is published by Hildegard, Lauren Keiser Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications.


  Visit Meira Warshauer at http://meirawarshauer.com/.

For inquiries about her music, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting

at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.

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