b'About the Creator and ProducerGRAMMY- and Juno-nominated soloist, band leader, and composer David Krakauer is a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. He frequently appears with the worlds finest orchestras including the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orchestre de Lyon, Dresdener Philharmonie, A Far Cry, and the Seattle Symphony. Krakauers bands Ancestral Groove and Abraham Inc tour and appear at major festivals internationally. His latest project, Breath and Hammer, with renowned South African pianist Kathleen Tagg, re-contextualizes Krakauers sound in a completely different way by adding loops, samples and extended techniques to the acoustic duo of clarinet and piano.Krakauers discography includes The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Nonesuch), The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu), and Paul Moravecs Pulitzer Prize-winning composition Tempest Fantasy (Naxos). He has also recorded with violinist Itzhak Perlman/The Klezmatics (Angel) and Dawn Upshaw/Osvaldo Golijov (Deutsche Grammophon). His unique sound can be heard in Danny Elfmans score for the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock and throughout Sally Potters The Tango Lesson. davidkrakauer.comKathleen Tagg is a South African pianist, composer and producer, based in New York. She has performed throughout North America, Europe, Southern Africa, China, and India, and her recordings have been featured in film and television. She is equally at home in performing with an array of instrumentalists and singers in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space; in non-conventional spaces and clubs with her loops and samples; writing for her own projects and collaborations; completing commissions for artists or symphony orchestras; creating narrative immersive interdisci-plinary performance works, or writing for film and theater.She is co-artistic director of Table Pounding Music with David Krakauer, a platform for a wide range of projects, recordings. She has performed on four continents, and is becoming known for her distinctive sound and unique language at the piano, made up of techniques she has developed and experimented with to expand the piano into a full electro-acoustic orchestra. kathleentagg.comcome togetherWithum is proud to support the Princeton Festival for inspiring the community through educational engagement and its celebration of performing arts.withum.com48 The Princeton Festival princetonsymphony.org/festival'