Yale Strom

Yale Strom (violin) is one of the world's leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history. Strom has done extensive ethnographic research in Eastern Europe. His research findings were instrumental in forming te repertoire of his klezmer band, Hot Pstromi, in directing ten award-winning documentary films, writing seventeen books, writing two award winning audio dramas, recording twenty CDs and having photo exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. Strom's latest documentary film (2023) Recordially Yours: Lou Curtiss is about the audiophile/ethnomusicologist Lou Curtiss who lived and worked in San Diego. Currently, Strom is teaching in the Music Dept. at San Diego State University.