Until now, it has been virtually impossible to find music for a Jewish wedding ceremony that is stately, elegant, beautiful, and authentically Jewish. Jewish Wedding Music: Processionals and Recessionals solves the problem.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
M.Mus. (Voice), The Juilliard School
B.A., (Psychology), Barnard College
Composer/Lyricist, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre (Advanced) Workshop
2000-present
MUSICALS, MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
| ON WITH THE SHOW (contributing ccomposer), 2012 | |
| THE SISTERS PLOTZ (composer/arranger), 2012 | |
| GO GREEN! : Prince Charming’s Quest for Love and Ecology in NYC (composer), 2012 Honorable Mention, Jackie White Memorial National Children's Play Writing Award, 2012 |
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| GETTING NOWHERE FAST (composer) | |
| UNDERSTOOD BETSY (composer) 1st prize Jackie White Memorial National Children's Playwriting Award, 2009 | |
| UNDERSTOOD BETSY (composer) Mack Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Vermont 2008 | |
| ETHAN ALLEN AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS INVENT VERMONT (composer) Mack Performing Arts Center, Arlington, Vermont, 2008 |
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| THE BALLAD OF ROM ‘N’ JULZ, Reading at Dramatists Guild, NYC, 2008 | |
| UNDERSTOOD BETSY (composer), winner of 12th National Children’s Theatre Competition, performed at Actors’ Playhouse, Coral Gables Florida |
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| Nada Te Turbe choral composition, Children’s Aid Society commission, 2006 | |
| A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, incidental music, Woodstock (NY) Playhouse | |
| THE OUTSIDER, in development at O’Neill Puppet Conference | |
| I’M SOMEONE ELSE (Sally Fisher), Great Small Works’ Toy Theater Festival, NYC | |
| THE APOLOGY, feature film score, (Lamb Films, LA) | |
| Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #8 (Composer/Lyricist), La Mama Theatre, NYC | |
| Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #1 (Composer/Lyricist), NYC | |
| Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #1 (Composer/Lyricist), NYC | |
| HOT KLEZMER (co-composer), Off-Broadway review, Jewish Repertory Theater | |
| Senior Composer/Arranger for Transcontinental Music: composing, arranging, composing, digital music sequencing, editing and rewriting submitted scores |
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| Arranger for Cantor Noah Schall | |
| Hundreds of arrangements for Broadway at the 92Y Chorus, Academy for Jewish Religion, Chicago Sinai Temple, and others |
MUSIC DIRECTING, CONDUCTING
| 2008 - Present | Conductor/Arranger, Broadway at 92Y Chorus | |
| 2011 - Present | Pianist/Arranger, Cantorial Practicums, Academy for Jewish Religion, Yonkers, NY | |
| 2010 | Music Director, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK (Kramer/Schwartz), with Leslie Kritzer | |
| 2008 | Music Director, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK (Kramer/Schwartz), Recording with Donna Lynne Champlin, Mark Jacoby, Sharon McKnight |
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| 2007 | Music Director/Arranger, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, Stagedoor Manor | |
| 2006 | Music Director, Broadway at the 92Y Summer Sing-ins, NYC | |
| Music Director/Vocal Arranger, TAILS (Platt/Masi), 45th Street Theatre, NYC | ||
| Music Director, The Jonatha Brooke Show, Tanya Moberley, Don’t Tell Mama’s, NYC | ||
| 2005 | Music Director/Arranger, THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS, Irish Repertory Theatre | |
| Music Director/Composer, Camp Theatreworks (Theatreworks USA), NYC | ||
| Music Director, Broadway at the 92 Y Summer Sing-ins, NYC | ||
| Assistant Music Director/Accompanist, Broadway at the 92 Y Chorus, NYC | ||
| 2004 | Music Director, BEEHIVE, Depot Theatre, Westport, New York | |
| Music Director, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #11, La Mama Theatre NYC | ||
| Music Director, VALADON (Greer - Katsaros), York Theatre, NYC | ||
| Music Director/Performer, ZEV, (Dupont-Jubien - Szerman), NYC | ||
| 2003 | Music Director/Composer I’M SOMEONE ELSE (Sally Fisher), Great Small Works’ Toy Theater Festival, NYC |
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| Music Director, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #8 | ||
| 2001 | Music Director/Composer, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre #1 | |
| Vocal Coach, SONGS OF PARADISE, Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, NYC | ||
| Music Director, BALANCING ACT (Wambui Bahati), in Chicago and New York | ||
| Pianist, EIGHT BY TEN (Nederlanders) | ||
| 2000 | Music Director/Pianist, Songs of Repentance CD set, (Transcontinental) | |
| 1999 | Arranger, Music Director, CD: Sacred Service, Zenia Sacks Da Silva | |
| 1998 | Contributed Music to HOT KLEZMER, Jewish Repertory Theatre, NYC | |
| Summer camp music director/pianist, GUYS AND DOLLS, GYPSY, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, PAINT YOUR WAGON, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, WHERE’S CHARLEY? and others |
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| Rehearsal/Audition pianist, Equity, Ogunquit Theatre | ||
| Music Director and Pianist for cabarets: Dillon’s, Don’t Tell Mama’s, NY |
PERFORMANCE
| Joint Klezmer/Jazz concerts with Valerie Capers Quintet | |
| Mezzo-soprano soloist, Music at St. Alban's (S.I.) Orchestral Festival | |
| DI YAM GAZLONIM (PIRATES OF PENZANCE in Yiddish), role of Ruth, Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, 92nd Street Y, NYC |
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| HOT KLEZMER, Vocals and Keyboard, Jewish Repertory Theatre West End Klezmorim, Vocals and Keyboard, at Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, St. Peter’s Jazz Church etc. |
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| Musical Elements (Daniel Asia and Robert Beaser, Directors): Contemporary Classical Music | |
| Café Quartet (French Cabaret Music) |
PRIZES, AWARDS
| Honorable Mention, Jackie White Memorial National Children's Play Writing Award, 2012 | |
| Competition Winner, Inaugural Production for the New York Children’s Theater Festival, NYC, 2012 | |
| First Prize, Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Play Writing Contest, 2009 | |
| Shalshelet Competition, 2008 | |
| ASCAP Plus Award, 2009, 2008 | |
| 12th Annual National Children’s Theatre Competition, 2007 | |
| Composition Grant, Children’s Aid Society Chorus, NYC, 2006 | |
| Diana Barnhart/Ned Rorem American Song Competition Honorable mention 2005, 2003 | |
| Outside-the-Bachs Composition Competition prize, Ft. Worth, TX, 2004 | |
| Shalshelet Inaugural Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music, Chevy Chase, MD prize 2004 | |
| Composition Award, New Jewish Music Commission, LA, 2000 | |
| Composition Award, Christian Fellowship of Art Song Composers, Santa Barbara, CA, 2000 |
PUBLICATIONS
| Jewish Wedding Music: Processionals and Recessionals (KOL DODI Vol. 2) (Bitterpearl Music, 2011) | |
| Kol Dodi: Jewish Music for Weddings (Transcontinental Music, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 2002) | |
| Songs of Repentance: An Anthology of High Holiday Music (Transcontinental, 2000) | |
| Seht die Lichter, A Sacred Service, (Transcontinental, 1999) | |
| A Passover Haggadah CD (Transcontinental, 1997) |
TEACHING
| 1985-present | Private studio: Voice teacher and coach (opera, Broadway, pop/jazz) | |
| Private studio: Piano (classical, pop, jazz) | ||
| Teaching: Classes Sight Singing, Ear Training and Music Theory —privately and for members of The Collegiate Chorale |
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| Coach, diction coach: (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish) | ||
| Coach: Musical Theatre music | ||
| 2011 | Master Class, Brown University: “Musical Theatre Since RENT” | |
| 2007 | Stagedoor Manor, classes in vocal technique and vocal coaching | |
| 1992-present | Voice Faculty, Extension Division, Mannes College of Music, New School University, NYC | |
| 1991-1992 | Voice instructor, Gallatin Program, New York University | |
| 1990 | Voice Faculty, The Lucy Moses School | |
| 1980-1992 | Piano accompanying staff, The Juilliard School: classical instrumental repertoire, operatic vocal repertoire) |
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| The Gallatin Program, New York University |
CANTORIAL EXPERIENCE
| 1992 - Present | Cantor, Rossmoor Jewish Congregation, Jamesburg, NJ | |
| 1991 - 1992 | Cantor, Temple Sinai, Bayshore, NY | |
| 1987 - 1991 | Cantor, Temple Sinai, Massapequa, NY | |
| 1985 - 1987 | Cantor, Temple Beth Ohr, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 1982 - 1985 | Hazzanit Sheinit, High Holy Days, Central Synagogue, NYC |
MISCELLANEOUS
| Member of the Board of Directors, American Society for Jewish Music | |
| Member of NATS, NYSTA | |
| Consultant, York (PA) County High School Theatre Awards Shows | |
| Jonathan Schwartz (WNYC) broadcasts | |
| Work presented at BMI smokers, “Next Stage” cabaret | |
| Member of ASCAP, Dramatists Guild |
| Studies in: | |
| Voice: opera: Martin Lies, Rose Bampton, Daniel Ferro | |
| Yiddish song: Mascha Benya, Lazar Weiner | |
| Jazz Improvisation: (voice: Janet Lawson, Jay Clayton; piano: Haim Cotton, Valerie Capers) | |
| Classical Piano: Jeaneane Dowis, Rosina Lhevinne (Aspen Festival) | |
| Composition: McNeil Robinson | |
| Elementary Folk Guitar: (Ed Maceachen, Rich Bennett) | |
| Fluent in Finale, Sibelius, GarageBand | |
| Familiar with Logic, Digital Performer, Cubase |
References on request.