Vira Lozinsky

Vira Lozinsky was born in 1974 in Bălți

Vira Lozinsky was born in 1974 in Bălți, Moldova, into a family of Jewish artists. As a child she studied music and played the violin at the city music school. She took part in the local Yiddish theater run by her father, Mikhoel Felsenbaum, and grew up among the many ethnic cultures of Moldova.

She immigrated to Israel at 16. She studied Yiddish and musicology at Bar Ilan University and voice at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. For several years she also attended the Yiddish song workshop of Nechama Lifshitz.

Her repertoire includes new songs written mostly by her father, classical Yiddish folk songs, and Romanian folk songs translated into Yiddish. She has toured several countries and performed at klezmer events in Israel, Europe and the Americas. In 2012 she won the Grand Prize at the International Jewish Music Competition in Amsterdam.