The music of violinist Cookie Segelstein and accordionist and tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) player Joshua Horowitz of the group Veretski Pass has won numerous awards, among them the BBC’s Critics Circle award for best CD, the Belgian Gandalf Award for Best Concert, and the Viennese Fritz Spielmann Award. They have twice been chosen as ambassadors representing traditional Jewish Music of Eastern Europe for the German traveling exhibition, Klezmerwelten, and have headlined KlezFest, the Jewish Music Festival of SOAS, University of London. They have been featured internationally in concerts at prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and their CDs have repeatedly been on the ten-best recordings lists of journalists. Segelstein’s unique violin style was featured for the Jewish wedding scene in HBO’s Sex and the City, and Horowitz’s compositons provided the music for Jes Benstock’s award-winning film, The Holocaust Tourist, as well as for the German TV series, Berlin, Berlin. Together with UVA Associate Professor Joel Rubin (Director of Music Performance), Veretski Pass has recorded two CDs. Poyln: A Gilgul (Poland: A Metamorphosis, 2015, http://poyln.com) received a five-star review from the influential Songlines world music magazine. The new recording, The Magid Chronicles, explores klezmer and Yiddish music of Belarus and Ukraine and will be released on January 20, 2019. Both are on Golden Horn Records. This is their second visit to UVA as guest artists.