Pure Listening Pleasure: Passover Piano Concert

Relax and refresh in the JCCSF atrium while relishing the artistry of Alex Bootzin, pianist extraordinaire. Alex will wow us with Jewish melodies including “Hava Nagila”,“Avinu Malkeinu”, “Hatikvah”, “Bei Mir Bistu Shein”, and “My Yiddishe Momme” along with a medley of songs from the Fiddler on the Roof. The classical portion of his program will include Bach, Brahms, Chopin and Liszt. And in recognition of Earth Day, he will play a handful of tunes consisting of “For The Beauty of the Earth”, “What A Wonderful World”, “This Land Is Your Land”, and “Ode to Joy.” 

Alex Bootzin is a pianist who has played solo classical concerts and other specialty music programs throughout the Bay Area and the Central Coast for many years. He holds degrees in Piano Performance and Musicology from UC Santa Barbara and trained with the Master Teacher Dusi Mura, a Hungarian professor with a lineage from Bartok and Kodaly.  He was formerly music director and pianist for Max’s Opera Cafe, a choir director and worship leader at the Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches, a choir director at Temple Beth Torah in Fremont, and the co-founder and piano and voice teacher at the Spindrift School of Performing Arts in Pacifica. He is well-known in the Musical Theater world as a music director and accompanist for over a hundred productions.