travel
Fall Tour 2017
Visit www.aviwisnia.com/tour
on tour with My Polish Wisnia
This Spring, i’ll be doing several more events with my grandfather, Cantor and Holocaust survivor David S. Wisnia. We will present several programs reflecting on our recent travels in Poland, with stories about the Holocaust and music that we will perform together, commemorating Yom HaShoah – a day of Holocaust Remembrance. Upcoming engagements include stops in Philadelphia, Ottawa, and Lynchburg VA. The programs are open to the public, so all are welcome to hear a very personal story with a universal message that is very relevant today.
Read my blog about our recent travels in Poland: #MyPolishWisnia
Watch David Wisnia sing at the 70th Anniversary International Auschwitz Commemoration: video
House Concert Tour
This weekend: a House Concert Tour with my songwriter pal Jason Ager! We’re tearing up living rooms all over the tri-state area. So come see some music, up close & personal. There will be kazoos, there will be tuba.
Friday, Nov 4 in Wayne, PA
Saturday, Nov 5 in Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, Nov 6 in Green Brook, NJ
all shows open to the public with RSVP: www.aviwisnia.com/tour
My Polish Wisnia Concerts in Los Angeles
Jewish Life in Poland
Sat, October 22, 8:00pm
at Torrance Cultural Arts Center
3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, CA 90503
TIX
Sun, October 23, 4:00pm
at Temple Beth Israel
3033 Towne Ave. Pomona, CA 91767
TIX
About The Program:
The concerts will showcase the voice and life-story of Cantor David S. Wisnia, a survivor of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. As a Polish youth, Wisnia sang in the famed Tlumacke Synagogue with renown Cantors Gershon Serota and Moshe Kussovitsky. He continued to use his incredible vocal talent during World War II and his internment in Auschwitz, leading to his ultimate survival. Wisnia’s broad-ranging repertoire includes liturgy, Yiddish show tunes, and Israeli music, connecting Poland’s Jewish musical past with the country’s current emerging moment of Jewish renewal. (Read more about David Wisnia’s story and his recently published memoir “One Voice Two Lives” at www.onevoicetwolives.com)
David Wisnia’s grandson, pianist & singer-songwriter Avi Wisnia, will accompany his grandfather during the concerts as well as perform his own original music, with influences ranging from American Folk to Brazilian Jazz to contemporary Jewish music, keeping the Jewish musical tradition alive, from generation to generation. (Read more about Avi Wisnia’s music and listen to songs at www.aviwisnia.com)
During the program, the Wisnias will also recount their recent travels to Poland: performing together in Warsaw, teaching a new generation of Jews at Beit Warszawa, and revisiting the infamous death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau where David Wisnia was a prisoner for nearly 3 years.
(Read more about the Wisnias’ travels in Poland at www.mypolishwisnia.com)
Additional musical support at the performances will be provided by instrumentalists from the UCLA undergraduate jazz program and the Thelonious Monk Institute.