With her slender figure, long, shining strawberry-blonde hair and big hazel eyes, Alison Wissot looks more like a stage ingénue than most people’s conceptions of a cantor — not surprising, since ...

Alberto Mizrahi has performed in front of giant crowds at Carnegie Hall and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. He’s soloed for Dave Brubeck’s jazz oratorio, understudied Luciano Pavarotti and appeared on ...

The cantor must speak excellent Hebrew and be skilled in chazzanut, the accepted style of cantorial singing, which involves centuries-old chants and melodies that may date back to the days of King ...

Yizkor, the memorial service chanted but four times in the course of the Jewish year, was composed in the wake of the Crusades, nearly 1,000 years ago. The spirit that spurred its creation has long ...

The most sought-after figures of Jewish life in early 20th century Europe and America were the khazonim, the cantors. They led services in synagogues and gave performances in concert halls, with wide ...

Guitar-slinging Cantor Stuart Simon retires after 40 years on the pulpit of Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation. Cantor Stuart Simon has sung the prayer Adon Olam to hundreds of melodies over his ...

A well-renowned cantor and icon of the cantorial world recently succumbed to cancer. Cantor Moshe Schulhof died at the age of 66 last week in his Aventura home. Schulhof was born in New York City and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Yotam Haber’s “Estro Poetico-Armonico III” combines live singing with archival recordings of cantors. By Thomas May Since early in his career, Yotam ...

A stalwart of New York City's astoundingly creative Judaic music scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Yoshie Fruchter specializes in one thing: moving on from what he's already accomplished.

Mazel tov to Cantor Bernard Beer. The borough son is retiring after 49 years as a faculty member and administrator at the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music at Yeshiva University over in ...

Scattered sheet music covers the coffee table in Cantor Rachelle Nelson’s office at Temple Beth Am in Pinecrest. A chart on a small white board organizes the tasks left to do in preparation for the ...