Jim Marcovitch
Jim Marcovitch bought his first accordion in Romania when he was nineteen and working for the aid organisation Orfan. He studied music at Goldsmith’s College and klezmer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, both in London. He is also a member of FDT Klezmorim and the comic melancholic trio Soup. He has composed and performed for the Cycle Circus, The Tower of Bagel at the Soho Theatre, The Master and Margarita at the Battersea Arts Centre, Pocketful of People at the Laban Centre and Little Angel’s Broadway hit The Mouse Queen. He was musical director for The Fourth Gate at The National Theatre, Cartoon de Salvo’s Sunflower Plot, Mervyn Millar’s puppet show Baba Yaga, Punch Drunk’s Masque of The Red Death and Pocket the Clown, a musical he wrote and directed at the Battersea Arts Centre.

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