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Binyomin Ginzberg (born 1973) is an American musician, blogger, journalist, and music critic.

Early life
Binyomin Ginzberg is a descendant of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov through the Twersky and Halberstam families and grew up with Hasidic nigunim. While attending yeshiva in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he was reprimanded for having a non-functional radio in his room to use as an amplifier for his keyboard, and subsequently began listening to secular music for the first tim. He later began playing as a for-hire musician at Jewish weddings and bar mitzvahs in New York City; it was in this capacity that he met clarinetist Michael Heitzler, who introduced him to klezmer, leading him to discover the more artistic klezmer and jazz scene and ultimately teach courses on the subject at KlezKamp and Yiddish Summer Weimar.
 * studied jazz piano with Garry Dial in Manhattan
 * studied rock piano with Todd Rundgren keyboardist Moogy Klingman
 * was also taught by Harry Max, a former bassist for Avraham Fried and Mordechai Ben David
 * Max introduced him to older Israeli music and compositions from Johann Sebastian Bach, Milt Jackson, Stan Kenton, Clare Fischer, and Antônio Carlos Jobim, broadening Ginzberg's musical horizons.
 * 47 years old (2020)
 * 47 years old (2020)

Binyomin Ginzberg Trio

 * Binyomin Ginzberg Trio (Jerusalem Post article excerpted on Ginzberg's blog)
 * Performed in Allendale, New Jersey in 2006
 * played on Nachum Segal's JM in the AM on WFMU

Breslov Bar Band
Ginzberg formed the Breslov Bar Band in 2009 with clarinetist Mike Cohen, guitarist Allen Watsky, bassist Yoshie Fruchter, and drummer Rich Huntley.



Other work

 * performed with Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Simcha Leiner at a Simchat Beit HaShoeivah in Bergenfield, New Jersey
 * performed with Mitzvah Tantz band at City Winery in August 2018


 * Produced music for Unorthodox
 * leads school band at Heichal HaTorah in Teaneck, New Jersey

Writing

 * Mitsve Tants book


 * Writes as "Hasidic Musician" for Blog in Dm


 * has written for The Forward and The Jewish Press

Binyomin Ginzberg Trio

 * The Binyomin Ginzberg Trio (2004)
 * Purim Sameach (2005)