BIO
Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies. In live performance, she weaves together accordion, vocals, and samples - inviting audiences to engage with ritual, intergenerational trauma, and the echoes of ancestral memory.
Chaia works closely with Yiddish archives to identify, highlight, and catalog Yiddish material for her electronic work. These include the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Yiddish Book Center, Yiddish Song of the Week, and the personal archives of Hankus Netsky and the Hoffman Family. has performed internationally at The NAMM Show, Pop Montreal, KlezMore Vienna, Shtetl Berlin, Sonic Territories, and more. Chaia’s mixes have been featured on The Lot Radio, Refuge Worldwide, dublab, and Res Radio. She’s been profiled by Grammy.com, NPR’s Art of the Story, Annabel Ross, and others. Chaia has collaborated with Russell Elevado, Dan Tombs, Sidney Mills and the Klezmatics and her work has been supported by New York State’s Council for the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Goethe Institute, and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance. On June 1, 2025, Chaia released her debut album, “Yiddish Electronic”.
UPCOMING DATES (2025)
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July 31 Lehrhaus
Somerville, MA
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August 1 The Lilypad
Somerville, MA
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September 13 KlezCalifornia
San Francisco, CA
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September 15 Subrosa
Santa Cruz, CA
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September 20 The Crocodile
Seattle, WA
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PRESS
“Through her brilliant fusion of old and new, Chaia suggests that transgenerational trauma can reshape identity - and that learning to love this transformed self is a complex journey worth taking” - Le Büro (Pop Montreal)
“[Chaia’s] songs become a conversation with listeners about her own takes on the source material... it's a Zeitgeist moment” - Grammy.com
“A completely new way to listen to Jewish music.” - NY City News Service
“The tools and the literacy of the old music and new types of dance music.... actually turning out to be quite a bit of a scene“ - NPR, Art of the Story
“Chaia is forging a new movement in klezmer and really taking it to the 21st century. It’s not just a genre. It’s a way to bring people together.” - The Forward
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chaialehmusic@gmail.com