VOC #6 Sephardi v Ashkenazi

Is the role of a Sephardi cantor the same – or very different from the Ashkenazi?

Register here http://bit.ly/eca-voc

Hear from some exceptional practitioners from the UK and North America who have worked in both spheres and can explain.

This session is co-hosted by the Cantors Association of America and moderated b…[Read more]

‘Bloch and Menuhin’ Wednesday 12 May 2021 5.00pm UK time

Join Malcolm Singer to hear about the close relationship between composer Ernest Bloch and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi pithily said of Ernest Bloch that he ‘was my first composer and I was his last performer.’ Indeed, Bloch’s Abodah was the first piece written especially for the young…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 43: Jewish Saharan Songs for Childbirth Tuesday 11 May

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Anija Dokter 

Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is Research Associate at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cambridge and Peterhouse and the Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at INALCO and

Dr Anija Doktercompleted her PhD in…[Read more]

Somehow the Time for COZ was left out

as you know it is

Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel (Come early The room will open 10 minutes early for greetings

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 42: Tuesday, 04 May, 2021
Marsha Dubrow talks with Michael Isaacson on

‘Minhag America‘: Modern Jewish Sacred Music

Dr Michael Isaacson

Composer, conductor, producer, author, and educator par excellence with over 500 published Jewish sacred and secular works. He is a multi-award winner for his extra…[Read more]

COZ Today Reminder

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 41:  The Caravan Orchestra Project

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Dr Abigail Wood

Senior Lecturer, Department of Music Haifa University

Andreas Schmitges

Professional klezmer musician (guitar and mandolin) discuss

The Caravan Orchestra Project – A collaboration between Yi…[Read more]

VOC #5   The Carlebach Conundrum

VJoin the Europen Cantors Association to hear what a Carlebach service means? and what  the effect is on the congregation and the tradition?

Tune in on Wednesday 28 April to hear from 5 panellists in conversation with Russell Grossman of ECA Register at http://bit.ly/eca-voc      

See the European Cantors…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 41:  The Caravan Orchestra Project

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Dr Abigail WoodSenior Lecturer, Department of Music Haifa University

Andreas Schmitges  Professional klezmer musician (guitar and mandolin) discuss

The Caravan Orchestra Project – A collaboration between Yiddish Summer Wei…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 40: Chassidic cantorial revival  

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Dr Jeremiah Lockwood

Musician (Sway Machinery) part time cantor, and scholar at Stanford University with

Meier Boruch Kohn one of the foremost liturgical experts in the Brooklyn Satmar Chassidic community and his son

Yoel Kohn a cantorial…[Read more]

IFJMS welcomes The American Society for Jewish Music.

The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the Society for Jewish Folk Music of St. Petersburg, Russia (1908-18).   After the Bolshevik Revolution, members of the group published their compositions under the imprint of JUWAL, Publication Society for Jewish Music…[Read more]

IFJMS welcomes The American Society for Jewish Music.

The American Society for Jewish Music traces its roots back to the Society for Jewish Folk Music of St. Petersburg, Russia (1908-18).   After the Bolshevik Revolution, members of the group published their compositions under the imprint of JUWAL, Publication Society for Jewish Music…[Read more]

IEBS Bloch Study Group (BSG)  Wednesday April 14

Jesse Rosenberg, head of the IEBS Bloch Study Group will himself be presenting on

Bloch’s reception in Fascist Italy in the 1930s (BSG)

sessions take place on the second Wednesday of every month, via Zoom at 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK /  18:00 Western Europe /  19:00 …[Read more]

IFJMS welcomes the European Institute of Jewish Musics (EIJM) Paris.

Based in Paris, the European Institute of Jewish Musics (IEMJ) was created in 2006 by the French Judaism Foundation, the Yuval association and the Henriette Halphen Foundation. Under the auspices of the musicologist Hervé Roten, the institute’s goals are the preservation and di…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 39: New approaches to Ladino Song  

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Prof Edwin Seroussi Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre.

with Courtney Blue

an American-Israel graduate student at the Department of Musicology of the H…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 38: Tuesday, April 06, 2021
‘Composer in Focus’ Bruce Adolphe

Jeff Janeczko, Curator and Chief Operating Officer of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, talks to

Bruce Adolphecomposer, author, and public speaker known to millions of Americans for his public radio shows.

Jeff Janeczko is also a Vis…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 37: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue Music have a Theory?

Part 2:  Facing the facts (partial view)

Dr Boaz TarsiAssociate professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary

And Dr Amalia KedemMember of the Music Department and Sound Archive of the Israel National Library in…[Read more]

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the section ‘Migrations and Transformations in Jewish Music’ at the Conference “Artistic Realities of Jewish Art” of the State Institute for Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation is postponed to April 1, 2021. We are looking forward to submissions!

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 36 and COZ 37: a two-parter on Tuesdays, March 23 and  30, 2021
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue music have a Theory?  

Dr Boaz Tarsi Associate professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr Amalia Kedem Member of the Music Department and Sound Archive of the Israel National Library in Jerusalem
Does A…[Read more]