American born Israeli soprano, vocal coach and songwriter. Born in Ohio. Attended Columbia University for undergraduate and graduate studies. Member of the Metropolitan Singers Choral Society (Lincoln Center). Student of Agnes Massini (Rubin Academy of Music) after coming to Israel, 1990. Sang with the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir, participated in several Israel Festival and on Israeli radio. Worked with leading Israeli popular artists such as Yoni Rechter and Shlomo Gronich. Nomi’s first CD, consisting of her original songs, is “Kumi Ori” (Arise Shine).S he gives voice and performance workshops in schools and to choirs throughout Israel, and is a vocal coach to high schools students from prestigious arts schools throughout Israel. Her New Album is : “My Brothers I Seek” with The Shir-El Choir of Ulpanat Lehava Kedumim.…
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American. Singer-songwriter. Rebecca Teplow began her musical path as a classically trained violinist while attending Yeshiva of Flatbush elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from the prestigious High School of Performing Arts, Rebecca then went on to pursue a degree in Music Performance where she studied under violinist Itzhak Perlman and composer Robert Starer. Eventually, her thoughts turned from instrumental performance to the creation of music. Rebecca’s desire to write songs was realized with the release of her first CDT’filot/Prayers (2004). She released her second CD Kaveh/Hope (2008) to good reviews.
http://www.rebeccateplow.com

Songwriter, singer, liturgical leader.
“Hanna was the first woman to receive the title of “Eshet Hazon”— Woman of Vision, and “Miyoledet Neshama” —Midwife of the Soul. She received ordination as a rabbinic pastor from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and studied at the Hebrew Univerity in Jerusalem as a Melton Senior Educator. She is currently co-spiritual leader at Congregation B’nai Or of Boston.” CDs include “Awaken, Arise” and “Kol Koreh: A Voice Calls,” “Olamama,” “Refuah Shleyma: The Healing Circle,” “And You Shall Teach Your Children,” and “Or Shalom.” Her website lists CDs, teachings, songbooks and contact information. Hanna Tiferet Siegel.FAX: 617-363-0371 E-mail: hanna@hannatiferet.com
www.hannatiferet.com

Born, June 22, 1900, Vitebsk, Russia. Died November 23, 1973, New York. Mezzo-soprano. At Opéra Comique for ten years. During WWII, Tourel espcaped through Portugal, then Cuba and finally NY. After an audition with toscanini, she appeared with New York Philharmonic and other major orchestras. Debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in May, 1937 and first appeared in Israel in 1949. Taught at Julliard in New York and in Jerusalem at the Rubin Academy. She was a great friend of Leonard Bernstein, who wrote Jeremiah Symphony to fit her coloratura mezzo-soprano voice. A picture from the Perry Collection at the University of Buffalo shows a picture of Tourel at the Russian Tea Room in NY.

Female vocalist from Israel. Tours widely in US. Website includes brief bio and a listening area with music divided by language. A video clip of her singing at the FestiLadino in 2005 on her gallery pages.
http://www.tzipi.com/

Israeli born singer songwriter. Her website bio reads: “By the age of 5, Tsufit, who had already lived in three countries, was putting on shows for the neighbourhood kids. By junior high, she joined a folk club that performed for the school. At age 14, she picked up the guitar at camp and a few years later, while still in high school, she started writing her own songs and performing at local folk clubs. A vivacious actress who was often cast in comedic roles in theatrical productions, Tsufit was shy in live concert situations. She had won several talent shows by singing pretty little songs until one day a friend of her mother told her to get her face out of the guitar and talk to the audience.…
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American. Born December 14, 1914,in Chicago. Pianist. Graduated Julliard School of Music, 1935. Studied with Olga Samaroff. Carnegie Hall Debut Oct. 18, 1935. and Town Hall Young Artist Award with all-Bach concert over six weeks in 1937. She taught extensively in the New York area, and also toured frequently in Europe, Israel, South Africa and South America. Recorded Bach and other keyboard reportoire for harpsichord, clavichord and organ. Recipient of five honorary doctorates. Publications included Introduction to the Performance of Bach (1960). Taught at Mannes College (1940-1944); Julliard (1943-1955); Univ. of California at San Diego (1966-1972) and Yale (1991-1993). In 1994 she founded the Tureck Bach Research Institute at Oxford. Her CDs are still widely available. Many of her papers are held at the Special Collections of Mugar Library, Boston University and at the New York Public Library, Music Division at Lincoln Center.…
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Israeli violinist. Graduated Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. Served in Israeli army, member of Army String Quartet. Won first prize at festivals Clairmont, Music Academy . Chamber music player and solo recitals. Also performs concerts with major symphonies thourghout Israel.

American. vocalist. Sings traditional Yiddish music in Marin County/San Franscisco Bay Area and with Hot Kugel band.
www.hotkugel.com

Eliana Gilad uses voice and rhythm as a natural healer. She has several CDs of healing and calming music and also CDs with lullabies for babies. She conducts workshops in Israel, other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. She claims her music “has been found to lower blood pressure, increase focus and quality of sleep.” Her website also has a travel and event calendar, sound clips and contact information.
http://www.voicesofeden.com/main.html

American musicologist, performer, artistic director. Judith Wachs serves as artistic director of Voice of the Turtle, a Boston-based group specializing in the music of the Jews of Spain. The group “learns most of its repertoire from field recordings housed in Jerusalem at the Jewish Music Research Center, at Hebrew University and at the radio station Kol Yisrael. These versions were collected by radio-journalists, scholars, and ethnomusicologists from Sephardi communities in Israel,documenting many versions of the songs which have been preserved by oral tradition.” Their website includes information on the performers, their instruments, and the group through FAQs.
http://www.voiceoftheturtle.com

Born on the island of Key West in the Florida Keys, Eva Wasserman-Margolis began to study clarinet at the age of 13. After finishing her Master Degree in Music Performance (1980) at the University of Illinois, she secured, at the age of 23, the position of principal clarinet with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra in Israel. While in Israel, she studied musicology at Bar Ilan University. She has focused on introducing audiences to performances and recordings of music of lesser-known composers in ensembles and solo works. She has recorded for composer Sara Feigin and finished a recording project of rare music for two clarinets and piano with Luigi Magistrelli. She has also been dedicated to raising a new generation of young clarinet players. They now study and perform all over the world.…
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Ethnomusicologist specializing in music of the Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.

Laura Wetzler, Born 1957 in Bayshore, NY. NYC-based singer, composer, lyricist, recording artist, and lecturer. Tours internationally. More than 150 concerts, lectures, workshops, radio, and TV appearances each year. ASCAP award winning original music and independent film scores State of the Art. Daughter of Long Island synagogue music director Rosalie Wetzler, Laura began singing and teaching Jewish music professionally at the age of 15. Received Bachelor of Science Degree in Vocal Performance from Hofstra University. Dorothy B. Hoag Scholar in Music. Presents 24 different concerts/ lecture programs, including “A World of Jewish Music,” sung in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Aramaic, “Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics,” >”Music of the Jews of Italy” “Jewish Women in Jewish Song,” “The Hitmakers: Jewish Roots, American Dreams,” “The Kidsong Jewish Songwriting Workshop,” “Music of the Jews of Africa-Uganda And Ethiopia,” “Jewels of the Diaspora,” a duo concert with Janiece Thompson, touring colleges, museums and community centers since 1990 doing grassroots African-American and Jewish peace and anti-racism work through song; plus performances of her original music and independent film scores (State of the Art.)Recordings Songwriter’s Notebook and Kabbalah Music:Songs of the Jewish Mystics receive international radio airplay .…
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Rosalie Wetzler, Born Brooklyn NY in 1914. Died, 1973. Synagogue music director, conductor, pianist, organist, cantorial coach, Jewish music radio personality and life long Jewish music educator. Conducted Rosalie Wetzler Choirs. Prepared and conducted vocal quartets for Long Island synagogues and as a member of the Jewish Music Forum in NYC. In the 1950’s and 1960’s was a pioneer in bringing many new works of Jewish music by Freed, Weiner, Binder, Ephros, Janowski to NY congregations. One recording: “Our Temple Music” (out of print). Sang soprano with The Gotham Singers octet in the first NY performance (March 19, 1956 at The Jewish Museum) of Max Janowski’s Avinu Malkenu. In addition to her work as a synagogue music director and educator, Rosalie Wetzler hosted a weekly Sunday morning radio program of Jewish music from Israel and around the world on WBAB, Babylon, NY.…
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Born ca.1888, Kishinev, Bessarabia. Died, 1956. Mezzo soprano and pianist. Moved to US in 1904. Artist Diploma, 1913, Institute of Music Art in NY. Debut at Boston Opera Company, 1917 and continued for lengthy career. Later in life she taught at Julliard.

“Cantor Wolff, a native of The Netherlands, holds a degree in flute from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and performed and recorded throughout Europe as a member of various chamber ensembles. In 1991 she received her Masters degree in Sacred Music from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music and was the first woman from the European continent to be invested as a cantor… She currently serves as Director of Student Placement and a part time faculty member at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She was Director of the Department of Synagogue Music of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and served as cantor at Temple Shalom in Succasunna, NJ, Temple Beth Chaverim in Mahwah, NJ, Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, the Liberal Jewish Congregation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the Hebrew Congregation of St.…
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Produced a CD of lullabies in various languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian.
http://www.batkol.com/

Born in 1963. Yiddish singer from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Studied at Tashkent Conservatoire. Concertized throughout Uzbekistan, and in Russia.

Cellist born in London in 1895 and died in Israel, 1959. In 1921 founded the Jerusalem Musical Society.

Part of a greater website selling lots of country Yossi items including a magazine, the tapes and CD’s of Country Yossi are presented.
http://www.countryyossi.com/

Ethnomusicologist. American. Born in Born in New Haven, Connecticut. Collected and recorded world folk music. Wrote several extensive musicological works. Pianist. Professor Emerita of The City College of New York. Has 15 recordings. A website devoted to her new memoir currently available through MRI Press published in January, 2003.
http://www.music-research-inst.org/html/pubs/yurchenco.htm

Israeli singer. Her groundbreaking synthesis of western and oriental elements of music came to epitomize the new Israeli, a person merged from various backgrounds of both eastern and western elements. Born into a Yemenite family, around 1911 (although the date is not sure), her mother died at child birth, her father when she around 3. She was moved around to various foster homes, all of different ethnic backgrounds. In 1924 she went to Shpheia, a school with European teachers. She was trained in western music. She won a scholarlhip to study acting in Berlin in 1929. There she met the pianist Nachum Nardi and partnered with him in an “oriental” repertoire. They toured in Europe, and then in 1930, in Palestine to critical acclaim. She had western composers make arrangements of Oriental songs, and performed them widely.…
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American. Born July 20, 1922. Muscatine, Iowa. Died March 1, 1972. Opera conductor, vocal coach, pianist, trombonist. In 1944 became a trombonist with St. Louis Symphony. 1946, MM, piano University of Southern California. 1955-1964 conductor of St. Louis Grand Opera Guild. Also taught St. Louis Institute of Music, Washington Unversity and the University of Southern Illinois. 1964, became director of Indiana University Opera Theater. 1966-1971, director University of Miami Opera Theater.

Singer Tziona Zilbershtein lives in northern Israel. She devotes her recordings specifically for women as a religious Jew. Tziona has a lovely voice and a lot of talent. She’s trained in music and dance in the United States, from classical ballet to Indonesian traditional dance, to Tai Chi. She’s also a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Tziona originally performed in the improvisitory jazz style but has since moved into accessible religious songs based on liturgical and biblical texts. Among her CDs is the newHanayni, preceded by Miriam’s Drum, a superb recording of spiritual song and dance. Her focus on rhythms is evident in earlier recordings such as the CD Aleynu. Tziona’s music is availble through her website:
http://koltziona.com/

Agentinian woman presents Yiddish songs and information on her recordings.
http://www.zoila.com/frame3.html

Soprano. Opera and concert singer. Daughter of Pinchus and Eugenia Zukerman. Studied theater at Brown University, B.M. Julliard. Young Artist’s Programmer in Munich, 1999. Appearances in US included Chicago, NY, Baltimore, Seattle and elsewhere. Also appeared at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.