Dear Colleagues and Friends who are members of the IFJMS Jewish Music Group on Humanities Commons

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COZ 12: Tuesday 08 Sept 2020 Jerry Glantz with Cantor and composer Joseph Ness – who recomposed and orchestrated Leib Glan…[Read more]

 Dear Colleagues and Friends – Please join us for the next ‘Conversation on Zoom’

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COZ 11: Tuesday 01 Sept 2020Samuel Adler American composer, conductor, author, and professor. Over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both University of Rochester’s Eastman School…[Read more]

If you have ever sung in a Jewish choir, or other singing community, you will want to hear the ‘Conversation on Zoom’ This coming Tuesday 25 August, between Danielle Padley (Cambridge UK) and Rachel Adelstein (Connecticut) on Anglo-Jewish Singing Communities:  Past, Present, and Future

(The International Forum for Jewish Music Studies has its…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues and Friends

Please join us for the next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ)

COZ 10: Tuesday 25 Aug 2020Dr Rachel Adelstein
Ethnomusicologist & Managing Editor, Musica Judaica Online Reviews with
Danielle Padley
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge

Anglo-Jewish Singing Communities:  Past, Present, and Futu…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues and Friends

The topic that Israeli classical singer/ Berlin Cantor, Mimi Sheffer and Israeli Pianist, Ofra Yitzhaki will address on Tuesday will be

Performing the music of one’s own people as part of a classical musician’s search for artistic identity

hope to see you there

‘Conversations on Zoom’Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pac…[Read more]

 Dear Colleagues and Friends

Please join us for the next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ)

COZ 9: Tuesday 18 August 2020

Cantor Mimi ShefferIsraeli born and trained classical singer Mimi became Cantor in New York and then of the New Synagogue Orianiernburger Strasse in Berlin 

Dr Ofra Yitzhaki Pianist Doctorate from Juilliard & member of the f…[Read more]

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COZ 8: Tuesday 11 August 2020

David Fligg

Tutor in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and author of the 2019 Czech publication ( (Letter from Gideon), the first full-length biography on Klein in a quarter of a century

Eva Fox Gal

Daughter of Austrian com…[Read more]

Reminder: Tomorrow Mark Kligman will be in conversation the legendary Baruch Cohon

Mark Kligman
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA and Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music in dialogue with
Baruch Cohon
Rabbi and cantor in California lecturer University of Judaism, Hebrew Union Musical…[Read more]

Shalom, Geraldine. Is there a meeting tomorrow at Noon Eastern Tine? Thanks, Marshall

Hazzan Marshall Portnoy, Cantor Emeritus
Main Line Reform Temple, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

 The next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 4 August 2020
Mark Kligman

Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA and Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music in dialogue with

Baruch Cohon

Rabbi and cantor in California lecturer University of Judaism, Hebrew Union Musical editor on the 3rd…[Read more]

 The next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 28 July 2020

What’s on your mind?

The High Holydays 2020: how will they sound in Lockdown, and what are the implications for Cantors in the future?

Curated by Russell Grossman for ECA with international cross-denominational panel including Alex Klein, Manchester and Jeremiah Lockwood, Califo…[Read more]

Next week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 21 July 2020

Join Malcolm Miller and Malcolm Singer discussing ‘The Composer in Lockdown: Malcolm Singer’s Jewish Works’ 

Tuesday 21 July 2020: Pacific: 09:00 /  Eastern USA: 12.00 /  UK: 17:00 /  Western Europe 18:00 /  Israel 19:00  (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and soc…[Read more]

Next week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ Tuesday 14 July (COZ) 14 July 2020

We invite you to join Jeremiah Lockwood PhD candidate at Stanford University Graduate School and accomplished radical Jewish musicians- (Sway Machinery), in dialogue with and Hankus Netsky Multi-instrumentalist, composer, teacher and scholar, founder-director of the Klezm…[Read more]

The ‘Speed Sessions’ (last Tuesday of the Month in the COZ slot) will be an opportunity to speak about ‘What is on your Mind’. The Theme for 28 July is:

‘High Holidays: what will they sound like in Lockdown and how might this impact on cantors in the future’.

This is a cross demoninational platform.

If you woud like to speak for ten minutes…[Read more]

Tuesday 7 July 2020
Pacific: 09:00 /  Eastern USA: 12.00 /  UK: 17:00 /  Western Europe 18:00 /  Israel 19:00  (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and socialising).

We invite you to join Professor Jehoash Hirshberg and Rakefet Bar-Sadeh
in dialogue with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni (b 1927)about his long creative career, with exam…[Read more]