Musical director of world-renowned klezmer group, Brave Old World, Alan Bern is one of the leading scholars, performers and revivalists of Yiddish music. A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Alan has travelled around the world to perform and record with groups such as the Klezmer Conservatory Band, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman, Shirim, Kapelye, Itzhak Perlman, Theodore Bikel and many others.
Alan is currently part of a duo with accordionist Guy Klucevsek, a trio with trumpeter Paul Brody and guitarist Michael Rodach and a septet with Aaron Alexander, Paul Brody, Alex Kontorovich, Cesar Lerner, Martin Lillich, and Marcelo Moguilevsky.
Based in Berlin since 1987, he has been a consultant and/or faculty at many international Yiddish and Jewish musical festivals and workshops of Yiddish music such as Weimar Klezmer Weeks, Klezfest in London, KlezKanada in Canada and Musica-Viva in Arezzo.