Biography

Frank London is a Grammy Award–winning trumpeter and composer, a member of the Klezmatics, and leader of the Hungarian New York band Glass House Orchestra, the bhangra funk group Sharabi (with Deep Singh), and his Shekhinah Big Band. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Pink Floyd, Mel Tormé, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, and is featured on more than 400 CDs. Mr. London composed a Yiddish-Cuban opera, Hatuey: Memory of Fire, with Elise Thoron, and explored klezmer and cantorial music with Cantor Yaakov Lemmer and clarinetist Michael Winograd. His other projects include the folk opera A Night In The Old Marketplace and the multimedia work Salomé, Woman of Valor.