Isabel Frey
Yiddish singer // ethnomusicologist // activist
UPCOMING
concerts//
2026
[Maternity leave until August 2026, new dates tba]
March 1, Amsterdam
Performance at Oy Vey Jewish Film Festival, Kriterion Cafe, Amsterdam
January 27, Vienna
An Evening of New Yiddish Song with Isabel Frey and Dmitri Gaskin @ Yung Yidish Wien
Past concerts
2025
November 27, Vienna
"Wiener Diwan des Friedens" – Concert with Isabel Frey & Marwan Abado, Zwinglikirche
November 8, Vienna
Isabel Frey // Moritz Weiß // Ivan Trenev @ KlezMORE Festival Vienna, Radiokulturhaus Wien
September 3, Vienna
"Messiah and Revolution", Program about the Jewish Labor Bund with Miriam Camerini, Festsaal Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
August 30, Vienna
Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox-Rosen @ Volksstimmefest, Sigi Maron Bühne
August 24, Montreal
Isabel Frey @ KlezKanada Summer Retreat After Party, Quai des brumes
July 24, Erfurt
"Yiddish Voices" – Double bill with Soveles and Daniel Kahn, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Kleine Synagoge Erfurt
May 23, Markt Hartmannsdorf
May 9, Graz
Isabel Frey & Ensemble, Stadt Graz, Schloßbergbühne Kasematten
April 26-27, Tokyo
Workshop and concert, Yiddish Academy Tokyo
April 6, Brighton
Concert and talk "Revolutionary Yiddish Culture", benefit for Ele Elna Elak, Brighton Reading Room
March 20, Zurich
Concert and talk, Babelkultur @Photobastei
February 27, Vienna
Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox-Rosen, "In mayn gortn", Sargfabrik
2024
December 13, Brunnenpassage
Lecture concert w/ Benjy Fox-Rosen, Neuer Wiener Diwan
November 19, Vienna
Performance at book presentation "Resistance and persecution in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, 1938-1945", Festsaal Amtshaus Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
October 24, Vienna
CD Release concert "Di fliendike pave" w/ Zoe Aqua, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Ivan Trenev, Moritz Weiß & Alexander Yannilos, Festsaal Amtshaus Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
October 23, Graz
CD pre-release concert "Di fliendike pave" w/ Ivan Trenev & Moritz Weiß, Die Brücke Graz
October 19, Linz
Solokonzert, Gplus - Die Grünen - Generation Plus, Tribüne Linz
September 1, Vienna
Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox-Rosen, Volksstimmefest Wien
August 31, Šalovci/Domanjševci
Concert w/ Styrian Klezmore Orchestra, Jüdisches Kulturfestival "A Bisale Mazl"
August 30, Straden
Concert w/ Styrian Klezmore Orchestra, Fest.Spiel 2024
July 25, Klagenfurt
Soveles, Domgarten Lidmanskygasse 14, DonnerSzenen Festival Klagenfurt
July 18, Sopot
Concert w/ Benjy Fox-Rosen and Esther Wratschko, Teatr Atelier, Sopot
July 17, Warsaw
Concert w/ Benjy Fox-Rosen and Esther Wratschko, Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw
July 16, Krakow
July 11, Vienna
July 6, Vienna
June 16, St. Pölten
June 13, Vienna
Standing Together Vienna Concert, WUK Wien
April 25, Berlin
Concert with Benjy Fox-Rosen, Shtetl Berlin, tba
April 24, Passau
Performance at Memorial Symposium for Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, University of Passau
April 23, Vienna
Soveles @ Musik unterm Mandelbaum #5, Echoraum, Vienna
April 18, Warsaw
Concert in memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, JCC Warsaw
April 14, Kobersdorf
Isabel Frey Trio, Synagoge Kobersdorf
March 12, Vienna
March 9, Darmstadt
Yiddish Revolutionary Music, Die Linke Darmstadt, Justus-Liebig-Haus, Darmstadt
January 27, Vienna
Premiere of "The Klezmer Project", performance w/ Benjy Fox-Rosen, Metro Kinokulturhaus
January 4, New York City
2023
December 27, New York City
Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox-Rosen, Yiddish New York, Hebrew Union College, 1:15pm
December 2, Vienna
Soveles, Musikalischer Adventkalender, Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, Vienna
November 29, Berlin
NASOM goes Berlin, Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin
November 18, Vienna
Styrian Klezmore Orchestra, Stadtsaal, Klezmore Festival Vienna
October 14, Wels
Auftritt Großes Netzwerktreffen, OÖ. Netzwerk gegen Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus, Bildungshaus Schloss Puchberg, Wels
October 12, Vienna
Isabel Frey & Fraynd, Brick 15, Vienna
August 23–29, St. Côme, Quebec
"Challenging the Theater of Memory: Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype", Isabel Frey & Benjy Fox Rosen, KlezKanada Summer Retreat, Canada
July 7, Vienna
Soveles, Bühne Mühlschüttelpark 1210, Kultursommer Wien
July 5, Graz
Concert "Ester" with Moritz Weiß Klezmer Trio & Friends, Styriarte, Helmut List Halle, Graz
June 30, Vienna
Isabel Frey & Die Zirkusband, Chelsea Wien, Vienna
May 17, Vienna
Soveles & Nanilo, Café Siebenstern, Vienna
April 30, New York City
"Revolutionary Yiddishland", Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY, USA
April 7, New York City
Soveles album presentation, Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY, USA
April 2, Boston
Soveles album presentation, Boston Synagogue, MA, USA
March 12, Minneapolis
Double concert with Sarah Larsson, Icehouse, Minneapolis, MN USA
February 19, Boston
Double concert with Sarah Larsson, The Armory Café, Sommerville, MA, USA
February 16, Washnigton D.C.
Solo Concert, Austrian Cultural Forum Washington, Washington DC, USA
January 30, Cambridge, MA
w/Rebecca MacInnes and Uri Schreter, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
January 20, Bratislava
Concert with Kaschauer Klezmer Band, Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava, Slovakia
January 17, Madrid
Concert Revolutionary Yiddishland (via Austrian Cultural Forum Madrid) Centro Sefarad
January 16, Castrillo Mota de Judios, Spain
Matinee (via Austrian Cultural Forum Madrid)