Samuel Zerin

Realizing how extremely difficult it is to find Jewish classical sheet music, Sam has been working since 2009 to create a free online archive.

"The St. Petersburg Score Project" includes over 200 compositions and is freely accessible at the website of the American Society for Jewish Music. In 2010, he founded the Joseph Achron Society, working together with musicians and scholars from over a dozen countries to revive the forgotten legacy of a brilliant Russian-Jewish composer. In this role, he has been editing and publishing first editions of Achron's manuscript works, in addition to networking musicians and fundraising. His most recent adventures include sorting and cataloguing the seemingly thousands of uncatalogued scores and manuscripts at the library of Hebrew Union College in New York and singing Yiddish choral music with the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus.

In addition to musical pursuits, Sam also loves languages, with particularly strong interests in Yiddish and Russian. He enjoys reading and writing fantasy literature, playing board games, and cuddling his two adorable kittens.

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