Synagogue Music
2009
4th European Cantors Convention (click for more info)
Sunday 5 – Wednesday 8 July
Special Guest Cantor Moshe Schulhoff, Florida
A four-day gathering for those involved in synagogue music to meet colleagues, compare notes, learn/ brush-up/ develop/ skills and learn new music guaranteed to enhance services.
Childrens
Shabbat Choir Project
Participating Synagoguges around the Country
Shabbat Shira Friday 6/ Saturday 7 February 2009
2008
Reaching
the Soul
What Is Prayer in the 21st Century?
London, Sunday 2- Tuesday 4 November, 2008
Music
is the pulse of Jewish spirituality – song charts the biorhythms
of the Jewish soul.'
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Set up in 2003 the Mission of the JMI Choral and Cantorial Music section
is to encourage to the highest standards, the appreciation and practice
of Jewish cantorial and choral music, respectfully spanning
the full spectrum of Judaism, welcoming students and participants of all
ages, from the Jewish and wider communities in multicultural Britain.
See links on the right to articles, activities, reviews, and pictures
of this section
JMI Choral and Cantorial Music
Director, Stephen Glass Director of Music, Congregation Shaar
Hashomayim, Montreal
Choral coordinator Vivienne Bellos (mixed and Children’s
Voices)
Choral coordinator Dan Jacobs (male voices)
Cantorial coordinator Steven Leas
Education coordinator Victor Tunkel Theory
Education coordinator Cantor Stephen Robins Practical
Consultants Geraldine Auerbach MBE Director, Jewish Music Institute
Alexander Knapp Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University
of London
International Advisory Board:
Cantor Naftali Herstik (Jerusalem)
Cantor Alberto Mizrahi (Chicago)
Cantor Josee Wolff (New York)
Cantor Joseph Levine (Philadelphia)
Matthew Lazar (Zamir Choral Foundation)
Aims:
to preserve, maintain and ensure the heritage of synagogue music traditions
of Anglo Jewry in all its facets
to promote the use of choral and cantorial music in practice and in concert
to encourage children’s choirs in schools, synagogues and communities
to engage with religious music and choral communities outside of the Jewish
community
to promote appreciation and understanding of the music of the Synagogue
to the wider public
to provide the opportunity for the enrichment of Jewish spiritual life
through the training of individuals and choirs to the highest standards
Activities to achieve these aims:
bring outstanding teachers to train cantors, lay readers, choir masters,
teachers and choristers in the best traditions and values of the music
of the Jewish people.
to conduct cantorial and choral training for cantors, lay readers, choirmasters
and choirs in schools and synagogues.
Hold annual ten-day intensive study periods for choirs of mixed voices,
male voices and children’s voices, such as the Barry Weinberg Jewish
Choral Festival
hold annual five-day intensive study periods for cantors with the best
teachers from abroad at SOAS University of London
hold regular classes and masterclasses in cantorial training at SOAS University
of London
set up focus groups for cantors, choirmasters, school music teachers
publish recommended music for the Synagogue
hold annual concerts of traditional music for adults and children
hold a triennial National European Cantorial and Jewish Choral Music Convention
raise funds to achieve these aims.
How you can help:
If you believe in these activities feel could possible help to see
that they happen then please make a bequest to the Barry Weinberg Fund
for Jewish Music, through which all these activities have come about.
Articles
: read articles on synagogue music
Activities
: See all Choral and Cantorial events
Summer
Schools and
Classes
Read
Reviews and what participants say
See
Pictures
Cantor
Charles Lowy
New CD and Book released
CD: The Lost Recordings
Book: In and Out of Harmony
last modified: 12 October 2005
