Rebekah Wolkstein & Drew Jurecka
About
Live Performance
Rebekah & Jurecka Duo
Drew Jurecka and Rebekah Wolkstein perform together is several ensembles: Payadora, Schmaltz & Pepper, Venuti String Quartet, and the Rebekah & Jurecka duo.
They tour internationally with their award winning ensembles and are releasing three records with their groups in 2025. They have been performing as a duo together since 2001 while students at the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music. They performed twice a week as strolling musicians at an Italian restaurant during this time. They became comfortable taking requests, improvising and playing all genres of music. They also co-write and perform their own music together.
As a duo, they perform jazz, classical, world music and fiddle. They play violins, viola, guitar, banjo uke, mandolin, harp, piano, clarinet, Hardanger fiddle, saxophone, bandoneon, accordion and they sing together.
As a duo, they have performed at Harbourfront's Summer Music in the Garden, Aeolian Hall, Xenia Concerts, National Arts Centre's 'Canada Presents' series, and Ottawa ChamberFest.
Rebekah and Drew perform with their children and have been popular musical videos as a family.
Production/ Arranging
Small Dog Sound Studio
Drew Jurecka was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year Grammy for his string arranging, playing and engineering work for pop sensation Dua Lipa. Drew has produced and recorded countless arrangements for artists including Metric, Alvvays, Donovan Woods, Jill Barber, Bahamas, Rose Cousins, Royal Wood, Laila Biali, Dermot Kennedy, Bülow and Ron Sexsmith. For more info about Drew’s production work, visit www.drewjurecka.com
Composition
Rebekah and Drew have received multiple grants to compose music from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Recently, Wolkstein was commissioned by executive producer Dan Rosenberg to compose four new works for the album “Silent Tears- the last yiddish tango” which was recorded by her band, Payadora Tango Ensemble and produced/ recorded and mixed by Drew Jurecka. These compositions have been shown on the BBC, CBC, German, Irish, Italian Public Radio, CBC, and premiered by KlezKanada. For more samples of Rebekah’s work, visit rebekahwolkstein.com
She recieved first place for one of her pieces at the 2022 Yiddish Music Awards.
Rebekah & Jurecka composed music for kids shows, ads and albums.
