"You can take the clarinet out of the boy's mouth, but you can't take the boy's mouth out of the clarinet…"

Michael Winograd's music has been described as "touched by God," "vastly inspirational," and "purely sex driven," by a number of ignominious celebrities, critics, mentors and friends. And at only twenty-four years of age, this 'boy/man of the reed,' has made a name for himself, along with the one that was given to him in November of 1982…. Garf Pinsky (that's the name.)

Garf has had the honor of performing (music,) with such personalities as Joe Morris, Frank London and his Klezmer Brass All-stars, Kenny Wollesen, DJ SoCalled, Ayelet Gottleib, and Michael Alpert. Mr. Pinsky has also played with the Klezmatics, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the Beat Circus, the Himalayas, Mikveh, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Shtreiml, and Lesser Panda… just to name a few.

Along with the many ensembles Pinsky performs with, he currently lead's his own projects under his pen name (real name), Michael Winograd. These include Infection (who performs the assumed music of John Phillip Soussa's human morphed clown wedding band,) The Foreingers (who do for Balkan music what Richard Simmons did for chocolate cake,) and Khevre, an ensemble, who for the past four years, has been exploring the possibilities of Yiddish song in contemporary settings.

but wait…. there's more….

G.Pinksy, in the fall of 2006, along with his contemporaries, founded the first regular Yiddish Tanzhoyz (dance house,) in New York City, where traditional European Jewish dance is taught and explored by some of the finest musicians and dancers in the field. And let's not forget, that for the past three years, the Pinskanator has been musical director of "Kids and Yiddish" at the Folksbeine Yiddish theater in New York City.
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In 2005, Michael Winograd graduated with distinction in performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston. There he studied with Hankus Netsky, Joseph Maneri, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris, Bob Labaree and Ran Blake.

He teaches at Living Traditions' annual KlezKamp in New York, and at KlezKanada outside of Montreal.

Considered a modern master of the Klezmer Clarinet style, he has performed all over the US, Canada and Europe.

He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where he performs, teaches and lives music.
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