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Eve Sicular

drummer/bandleader, Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos

About Me

DRUMMER/BANDLEADER EVE SICULAR founded Metropolitan Klezmer in 1994 and ‘sister sextet’ Isle of Klezbos in 1998. She has produced the two bands’ seven acclaimed CDs, as well as band tours throughout North America and Europe. Her musical and multi-media archival projects have received accolades from Sparkplug Foundation, Outmusic Awards, Chamber Music America, New York State Council on the Arts, and NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Eve’s arrangements have been heard on Showtime’s The L Word, HBO’s Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags, CBS Sunday Morning, SiriusXM and soundscapes from SITI Theatre Co to London’s Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, as well as in pieces at New York Theatre Workshop, The Museum of The City of New York, The Wexner Center, The Jewish Museum [NYC] and The Contemporary Jewish Museum [SF]. Her musical documentary theater work J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother’s FBI Files, for which Eve wrote original music, lyrics, and book, was praised by The New York Times for “lively score… smartly written” in its 2015 debut at HERE Arts Center. Drawing full houses for its Off-Off Broadway run as well at Westchester’s Emelin Theatre, the show was a hit since its first incarnations at Dixon Place and JCC Manhattan. Her arrangement of the Yiddish Triangle Fire ballad Di Fire Korbunes premiered at the Cooper Union Great Hall centenary concert commemorating the 1911 tragedy and is featured as a bonus track on Metropolitan Klezmer’s latest release “Mazel Means Good Luck.” She has also played a wide variety of styles with artists such as Jill Sobule [Music for Yentl], Charming Hostess, The Voodoobillies, and Daughters of Cybele, as well as studio sessions for Scissor Sisters. A Harvard graduate, she wrote her thesis Ideology & Montage on early Soviet documentarian Esther Shub and her pioneering use of archival materials. Eve has also published and lectured internationally on topics such as The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film and Music in Yiddish Cinema, and as commissioned guest blogger for NewMusicBox, the online publication of New Music USA. In addition to her work at The Museum of Modern Art on the landmark retrospective Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, co-organized by MoMA and The National Center for Jewish Film, she is a former curator of the Film & Photo Archives at YIVO Institute.