After 15 years, conductor Yuriy Bekker still manages to find new voices for “A World of Jewish Culture,” the Piccolo Spoleto series of shows and film screenings celebrating Charleston’s Jewish community.

“Over the course of the time that I’ve been curating this show, I have not repeated anything,” said Bekker, who is in charge of the chamber music portion of the series. “I always find and research some new voices — voices that we have not heard of but that we want to put on the map.”

As the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s artistic director and concertmaster, Bekker has lived in Charleston for 18 years. He has spent nearly all of that time curating for “A World of Jewish Culture,” too.

“I always pick music of Jewish composers that have contributed so much to the arts and to humanity,” sa

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