Lisa Gutkin

Lisa Gutkin is an American violinist, singer and songwriter of The Klezmatics. She played in Sting's The Last Ship,[1] had a cameo appearance in “Sex and the City,” and is a MacDowell Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.[2] Lisa appears on hundreds of recordings including From Here On In,[3] a CD of her original songs produced by John Lissauer, and Play Klezmer Fiddle!,[4] an instructional DVD. She has co-authored songs with Woody Guthrie, Anne Sexton, and Maggie Dubris, and composed for symphony orchestra, dance, and film. She is the Co-Music Director and Co-Composer for the Broadway show "Indecent (play)" which won 2 Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play and Best Lighting Design of a Play in 2017.[5]

Career

Gutkin specializes in bluegrass, Klezmer, and Irish folk genres. She holds a Bachelor of Music in classical violin from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.

In 2002, Gutkin joined The Klezmatics with the release Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! and remains a performing and composing member, notably having written the music for the acclaimed track off Wonder Wheel, "Gonna Get Through This World". This album would win The Klezmatics a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2007. Gonna Get Through This World was also notably performed with Arlo Guthrie at Carnegie Hall during Thanksgiving of 2004 at “The Annual Holiday Concert: Arlo Guthrie with Special Guest the Klezmatics and Abe Guthrie, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion.”.[6]

Gutkin has performed and/or recorded with John Cale, Rod MacDonald, Jane Siberry and the Irish artists Tommy Sands and Cathie Ryan.

Gukin also composed for the 2017 short film, Summer,[7] written and directed by Pearl Gluck, and is the composer for Gluck's 2019 film, Write Me,[8] written by Pearl Gluck and Deborah Kahan Kolb.

In 2019, Gutkin produced and recorded on Indecent (Original Broadway Cast Recording).[9] Released by Yellow Sound Label on January 28, 2019, the album featured the return of the original Broadway cast for a full recording of all the compositions of Indecent and was produced by Gutkin herself, Michael Croiter, and Aaron Halva.

Partial discography

The Klezmatics (Albums which feature Lisa Gutkin)
Year Project Label
2011 Live at Town Hall Soundbrush Records
2008 Tuml = Lebn: The Best Of The First 20 Years Piranha Records
2006 Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah JMG Records
2006 Wonder Wheel (Lyrics by Woody Guthrie) JMG Records
2004 Brother Moses Smote the Water with Joshua Nelson & Kathryn Farmer Piranha Records
2002 Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! Rounder Records

Indecent Original Broadway Cast
Year Project Label
2019 Indecent (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Yellow Sound Label

Lisa Gutkin
Year Project Label
2016 From Here On In Independent

Whirligig
Year Project Label
2003 Live at the IMT Quarktet
2000 Spin Quarktet
1996 The Wheel Quarktet
1992 WHIRLIGIG Quarktet

Rod MacDonald (Albums which feature Lisa Gutkin)
Year Project Label
1997 Live at the Uptown Coffeehouse Gadfly Records
1997 And Then He Woke Up Gadfly Records
1994 Man on a Ledge Shanachie Records
1992 Highway to Nowhere Shanachie Records
1989 Bring on the Lions Brambus Records

Richard Meyer (Albums which feature Lisa Gutkin)
Year Project Label
2000 Bitter Moon/Strange Generosity Independent
1994 A Letter From The Open Sky Shanachie Records
1992 The Good Life Shanachie Records

Filmography
Year Project Role Director
2019 Write Me (Short Film) (Post-production) Composer Pearl Gluck
2018 Indecent Great Performances Co-Composer, Musician Rebecca Taichman
2018 Summer (Short Film) Composer Pearl Gluck
2010 The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground Appeared as herself Erik Greenberg Anjou
1997 Sax and Violins Appeared as violinist Nye Heron

References
  1. "Sting's new musical "The Last Ship" sails on a tide of traditional tunes". New York Irish Arts. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  2. Studio, Familiar (2019-04-19). "https://yiddishstage.org/author/lisa-gutkin". Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. Retrieved 2019-04-19. External link in |title= (help)
  3. ♫ From Here On In - Lisa Gutkin. Listen @cdbaby, retrieved 2019-04-19
  4. "Play Klezmer Fiddle! | Homespun". homespun.com. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  5. "Indecent Tony Awards Info". broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  6. Staudter, Thomas. "Plucking New Songs From Guthrie Archives". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. "Summer". FilmFreeway. FilmFreeway. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  8. "Write me". IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  9. "Indecent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)". Broadway Records. Broadway Records. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
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