Anna Korzhenevich
& Kate Elbert
Anna and Kate started learning music as young children, singing in a duet, attending a music school and participating in city concerts. They displayed a great interest in Jewish music and jazz.
In 1995, the vocal duet won the second prize at Halleluia-95 --the International Youth Festival of Songs about Israel in Moscow -- with the song The Promised Land (music by Y.Kazyansky, lyrics by L.Kopylova).
After graduating from college, Anna an Kate worked at "Tse Ulmad" – the Yaroslavl Jewish Cultural Center. There, they created programs related to Jewish culture - music and literature. Anna and Kate toured several cities in Russia and other former Soviet republics with their concert-lecture The Jewish Life in Songs. They also had edited Kehila -- the newspaper of the Yaroslavl Jewish Community.
Anna and Kate participated in festivals and concerts in many Russian cities, as well as in Germany, Poland, Sweden and USA. The song Afn Pripechek, performed by the vocal duet, was broadcast by a major Polish national TV Network.
In July 2003, Anna, Kate, and Yakov Kazyansky released the CD of Jewish songs Abisl Glick (A Little Bit of Happiness).The repertoire of the duet consists of dozens of songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, English, French and Spanish, as well as jazz and retro compositions. Currently, Anna and Kate continue performing in the US (mostly, Columbus and Chicago) as a duet, as well as solo vocalists.
