Russian-born violinist maestro Yuval Waldman (heralded as “spectacular” by the New York Times) will be performing an evening of “lost” Jewish music, accompanied by the artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Delores Stevens, on Thursday, August 13, at 7:30 p.m. The performance is the final event in the Summer Institute series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.

This extraordinary event will include rare and newly-found Jewish music from Russia and the Ukraine, as well as music composed in the Terezin Concentration Camp (in what is now the Czech Republic). The maestro will perform one of his own works (Jerusalem of Gold) plus a wedding dance, a sonata, a lullaby and several other pieces.

Maestro Waldman has an acclaimed reputation for promoting the unfamiliar in music. He champions rarely-performed 19th-century masterpieces, and commissions new works from American and Israeli composers. He calls himself a “musical missionary,” and he’s as good as his word: in 2005, he founded Music Bridges International to foster cross-cultural music exchange programs featuring the music of different countries. Bridges events feature the works of composers from both countries involved, with a particular emphasis on exposing audiences to new compositions. Under the Music Bridges banner, the maestro directed the successful Tchaikovsky Youth Competition in Izhevsk, Russia (Tchaikovsky’s birth place). Having recently had a successful exchange with Kazakhstan, Bridges is presently working on exchanges with Kazakhstan, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, China and Finland.

The maestro is also an impassioned performer of more standard repertoire. Earlier this year he conducted and played with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv, then left the Middle East for the Midwest, where he directed and performed in a Bernstein Festival at the University of Science and Arts, Okla.

Admission is $15.