Miriam Ahuvat-El is a Jerusalemite, singer, composer, poet and psalmist. She grew up in a Hasidic family, absorbing their passion and joyous spirit, but embarked on a long search for her own spirituality which led her to become a pioneer in the Jewish Renewal movement in Israel. In her development as a singer, she has come to value the method of gilui ha-kol (unfolding/discovering the voice). She creates music in a diversity of styles and instrumentation, infusing ancient Jewish texts with her individual spirit and faith. Her latest CDs are The Beloved - Devotional Songs to God and Ways of Peace.(www.cdbaby.com/cd/miriamai)

A native of Tel Aviv and a resident of New York City since 1985, Sariel Beckenstein has been composing since the age of 18. His professional acting debut was in Fiddler on the Roof with the Cape Town Opera Company in 1984. He can be heard on the soundtrack of the DreamWorks feature film, The Prince of Egypt. He has performed his one-man musical biography, The Songs That I Shlepped, in Israel and New York. He has served as cantorial soloist at congregations Beth Simchat Torah in Manhattan, and Tehillah in Riverdale, New York. His passion for the music of Israel has led him to perform with lyricistsYoram Tehar Lev and Ehud Manor, and at recent tributes to Manor, Naomi Shemer, and Uzi Hitman. He is well known as an Israeli dance leader and teacher, and has been performing at weddings and other simchas since 1998. (www.Halelu.com)

Natan Berenshteyn was born in Kishinev, Moldova and started to play piano at about age 6. He graduated from Kishinev College of Music in classical piano, and from Moldova State Institute of Art with a graduate degree in jazz piano and conducting. He also received degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University in Music Education (undergraduate) and classical piano (graduate). For the past seven years he has been choral director at Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, Virginia.

David Berkenbilt began creating musical arrangements while a member of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School a cappella choir. He is a 1962 graduate of Georgetown Dental School with an MS in pediatric dentistry from Northwestern University. While in private practice in northern Virginia, he sang with The Choral Arts Society of Washington and several area synagogue choirs. Then, inspired by a music theory class he attended on visiting day at his son's college, he decided to return to school, graduating in 1995 from George Mason University with a degree in composition. Now retired from dentistry, he spends much of his time in theater. He also sings with the Ohr Kodesh Chorale under the direction of P’nina McCabe, where his setting of Ki Hiney Ka Khomer has been heard during the High Holidays. His string quartet was a winner in the Prince George’s Symphony 30th Anniversary Chamber Music Competition. Hanukah Lights and Hanukah Nes Gadol won awards in the Amadeus Choir of Toronto's annual Christmas/Chanukah song competition.

Andrew Bleckner studied composition with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, and received a PhD in composition in 1995. While at Penn, he received the Paul Rochberg Fellowship, and The Helen L. Weiss Prize for Vocal Music. Currently he is Resident Composer for the Singing City chorus of Philadelphia. Around 1994, he began a spiritual and artistic transformation inspired by the writings of Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Michael Lerner. Since then, his primary musical inspiration has come from sacred texts. His setting of Psalm 150 has been performed throughout the US including venues such as the 2006 American Choral Directors Association Southern Convention and the Zamir Chorale of Boston 2006 Spring Concert. His setting of Psalm 42 recently received Honorable Mention in both the Vanguard Premieres Choral Composition Contest and the First Annual Meistersingers Choral Composition Competition. He has received composition awards, grants, and fellowships from ASCAP, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the American Composers Forum, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MacDowell Colony. (www.andrewbleckner.com)

Rick Calvert is a folk musician and cantorial soloist/temple musician who turned to composing modern settings for liturgical text in 1997. In 1998, his CD, Journeys, was produced through the encouragement of Fran Avni at CAJE 24. His compositions and performances reflect his musical roots in folk/rock and choral music. He has taught music at the Temple Beth Tikvah Religious School in Madison, CT since 1986, and currently serves as cantorial soloist/temple musician there and at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, NJ. His Yis-m’chu was selected for inclusion in Celebrate Shabbat, a collection of exemplary Shabbat music produced by Craig Taubman. His melody for the Shehecheyanu was selected for use at the ordination ceremony for cantors and rabbis at Hebrew Union College New York in 2001. He has performed extensively in the Northeast and has been a featured evening performer at CAJE since 1999.

Steve Cohen received his training at the Manhattan, Juilliard, and Eastman Schools of Music, and has composed a large catalog of symphonic, chamber, liturgical, and musical-theater pieces, including the operas, The Cop and the Anthem and La Pizza Del Destino. His orchestral composition Juggernaut won the 2004 Composer’s Award given jointly by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Museum in the Community. His vocal settings of Psalms 84 and 121 took first and second prizes in the 2006 Susan Galloway Sacred Song Award contest. He has arranged and orchestrated numerous scores for orchestras, touring shows and other performing groups. He is a member of New York’s Zamir Chorale and is active in the musical life of Larchmont Temple (where, among other things, he plays Haman each year in the Purimshpiel).

Daniel Cousin began his spiritual musical journey while an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he founded Charvard Chai Notes while earning a degree in cognitive neuroscience. He played at simchas from New York to New England, which he continued to do while at Albert Einstein Medical School. He amassed a collection of more than 100 instruments from around the world which he taught himself to play and began incorporating into his compositions. He worked in the hospital by day, while at night he performed at clubs around New York City with his group My Cousin's Band, and became the house pianist for late night jazz sessions at Smalls in the West Village. He is currently a radiology resident at Yale's affiliated residency, and performs with his wife, singer Laura Lenes. (www.chainotes.org and www.mycousinsband.com)

Joshua Henry Fishbein was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied composition under Nancy Galbraith at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 2006 with degrees in psychology and music composition. He will attend the University of Maryland College Park in the fall as a composition graduate student. His music has been performed by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Jazz Vocal Ensemble, and Contemporary Ensemble; the CMU Originals, an all-male a cappella group which he had directed for the past three years; the Quarteto Latino Americano; the Baltimore Choral Arts Society (as part of the 2005 Student Composers Project); and various solo artists in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. The music of Cantor Moshe Taube, with whom he worked for a year at Beth Shalom Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and Hazzan A. Dunajiewski (1843-1911) were sources of inspiration for Musaf Kedushah. He dedicated this work to Cantor Taube, Maurice (Tito) Braunstein, and the Beth Shalom Choir.

Cantor Stephen Freedman, a native of Milton, Massachusetts, is a hazzan, composer and accomplished folksinger. A student and protégé of Cantor Gregor Shelkan, he served congregations in Rhode Island, Florida and Massachusetts before assuming his present position in 2001 at Temple Sinai in Dresher, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb. Several of his congregational melodies appear in the recently published Zamru Lo: The Next Generation. His 1979 Holocaust work, Childhood Memories, for children’s choir and narrator, received critical acclaim from Anne Frank’s father Otto, who granted permission for excerpts from his daughter's diary to be set to music. Esa Einai is one of three Psalm settings composed for use at memorial services.

Jonathan Friedmann is cantor at Bet Knesset Bamidbar, Las Vegas, NV. He also plays cello, guitar, bass, and mandolin in various ensembles, including the Hazzanim and Shul House Rock, both with Cantor Roni Kripper. Cantor Friedmann is a composer, arranger, and music teacher, and has written music for the University of California San Diego Music Library, Tzadik Records, and a number of synagogues. He has lectured on Jewish music at California State University, University of California San Diego, and University of California Los Angeles.

Mezzo-soprano Dr. Isabelle Ganz received her DMA in Voice and Music Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She teaches voice at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX and directs the choir at Congregation Brith Shalom and the HaZamir Chorale in Houston. In 1997, as a Fulbright Scholar, she taught at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and conducted research in Sephardic music at Hebrew University. In 1992 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant. She has premiered and recorded many works composed for her, including Ryoanji for Voice and Percussion by John Cage. Her New York-based ensemble, Alhambra, has performed throughout the world and recorded three CDs of Sephardic songs. She is listed in the International Who’s Who in Music.

Rabbi Shefa Gold is a leader in Aleph: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal and is the director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She composes and performs spiritual music. Her liturgies have been published in several prayerbooks, and she has produced ten music albums. She presents workshops and retreats on the theory and art of chanting, devotional healing, spiritual community-building, and meditation. She received ordination from both the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Her grounding in Judaism in combination with a background in Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Native American spiritual traditions enables her to serve as a spiritual bridge celebrating the shared path of devotion. (www.shefagold.com).

Cantor Terry Horowit came to Maryland from St. Louis by way of a biology doctoral program at Brown University. She taught herself to play guitar at the age of 10 and started writing folk songs a couple of years later, continuing to compose music for guitar and voice through graduate school. After a hiatus of many years, she was again bitten by the bug in 2000 and began composing original settings for prayers and texts from the liturgy; two of her compositions were performed at Shalshelet's First International Festival Concert in 2004. She completed the cantorial certification program at Ma'alot Seminary in Rockville, MD in 2002. A tutor of b'nei mitzvah at Har Shalom and Tikvat Israel Congregations for many years, she also teaches adult classes on cantillation systems and aspects of Jewish practices. She performs with Shalshelet (not affiliated with the Shalshelet Foundation). (www.klezmusic.com/shalshelet.html).

Jonathan Kremer is a graphic designer (for Zamir Choral Foundation, among others) and Hebrew calligraphic artist (ketubot, etc). Way back when, he played guitar and sang for six years with Boston’s Hamakor Israeli Folk Dance Troupe; a few years ago he joined Kol Minor, an a cappella group in Wynnewood, PA. He began to compose when he was preparing to be shaliach tsibur for Kol Nidre and he couldn’t remember melodies for some of the singable parts of the service. Most of his composing begins on his walk (3.2 miles round-trip) to shul on Shabbat. If he lived farther away or walked more slowly, he might be producing longer pieces. (www.kremerdesigns.com)

Cantor Wayne Krieger has a degree in music education from the Hartt School of Music and certification as a music therapist from Montclair State College. At Hartt, he studied voice and Hazzanut under Cantor Arthur Koret. For 25 years he has served as a cantor, Jewish educator and professional storyteller in Tucson, AZ, Port Chester, NY, and Manchester, CT. Currently he is at Temple Torah in Boynton Beach, FL. He was also Education Director of a large religious school in Westport, CT. He sang for three years in Connecticut's first klezmer band, Katz & Jammers. In 1994 he and his wife Nancy formed the musical duo Shisha Neharot. They have performed extensively in Israel, New England, and Florida. At the 1995 CAJE Conference, he conducted the cantors' concert which featured his compositions and arrangements. In 1997 he was a winner in the professional category at the North American Zionist Song Competition.

Born in Brazil and raised in South America, Cantor Roni Kripper's musical heritage includes bossa nova, tango, klezmer, and liturgical music. As a pianist he has played with many bands in South America. His cantorial studies were with Cantor Oren Bolchover, Cantor Rabbi Kane, and Cantor Perryne Anker. He studied at the Beit Midrash of the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. He has a BA in Social Communications and Documentary Filmmaking. He was the assistant director of the documentary Besides Treblinka, and director of the documentary Tierra Comprometida for the Jewish Agency. He is the cantor at Temple Beth Shalom of Long Beach, CA, where he leads the "Shul House Rock" Friday night service.

David Lefkowich first picked up a guitar when he was nine years old and never put it down. Self-taught, he spent his early years in California within the Jewish summer camp movement as song leader. Through the years he has developed many musical styles, but has always stayed close to his folk and Jewish music roots. He is chair of the ritual committee and a lay leader at Congregation Darchei Noam in Toronto, Canada. Over the last three years, he began writing liturgical pieces and now regularly brings his music and poetry into the services. With fellow congregants he formed the Nigunatics, a Jewish folk band that specializes in Israeli folk dance and other Hebrew, Jewish, and Yiddish music.

Claudia Mikail, MD, MPH has medicine on her mind and music in her heart. Her love of Jewish music began in the Junior Choir at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation in New York. At Princeton University she studied music composition, wrote musical theatre for the Triangle Club, and founded the Hillel Jewish Singing Group for which she composed erev Shabbat melodies, later recorded as Songs of Sinai. She has won awards from the National Young People's Music Composition Contest, the New York State Music Competition Contest, and the Newsday Teen Talent Competition. She performs her works, which typically blend Sephardic/Mizrahi and European motifs, at synagogues and at benefits for Jewish philanthropies. She is a recipient of the Annual Achievement Award from the IJWO Jewish Women’s Organization of Los Angeles. (www.doctormikail.medem.com)

Wendy Morrison is a Maryland native from a family in which everyone sang and played a musical instrument. Having learned to play piano from her mother when she was five, she later learned to play accordion, whistle, concertina, and banjo. She attended high school in South America and learned Hebrew as an adult. A member of Tikvat Israel in Rockville, Maryland, she tutors b'nai mitzvah, and teaches Hebrew at a local Hebrew school. She also teaches music and repairs accordions at the House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park. A performer with two Klezmer bands, Klezmos and Klezcentricity, she began composing Jewish music around 1999. She founded the band Shalshelet (not affiliated with the Shalshelet Foundation) in 2002. Several of her compositions were performed and presented in workshops at the 2004 Festival. (www.klezmusic.com/shalshelet.html.)

Howard Pfeifer has worked extensively in Chicago and Los Angeles as a pianist, composer, arranger, and musical director in television commercials, feature films, variety shows, T.V. series, and record albums. He began his musical studies at age 4. As a young performer he won several piano competitions including all divisions of the prestigious Society of American Musicians, a feat not repeated in the 50 year history of the competition. At age 12 he was a vocal soloist in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Choir under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. He has worked on over 1000 commercials (as pianist/composer/music director), and arranged and performed for TV series and variety shows including The Chipmunks (over 150 songs for their TV series in the 1980s), The Lennon Sisters Christmas Special, Fame, The Pink Panther, and CBS Television Christmas Classics. Among the performers he has worked with are Shawn Kolvin, Patti LaBelle, Vonda Shepard, Johnny Cash, BB King, Johnny Frigo, Karen Carpenter, Aretha Franklin, Jim Brickman, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Dom DeLuise, and Marie Osmond. (www.pfeifermusic.com)

Rabbi GeelaRayzel Raphael, a songwriter/liturgist, was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She also studied at Indiana University, Brandeis, Pardes, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently she is the rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation in Woodbury, NJ. She also consults with the Jewish Women's Spirituality Institute and Faithways: an Interfaith Family Support Network of the Jewish Family and Children's' Service of Greater Philadelphia. She teaches in numerous locations in the area as well.She sings with the a cappella trio MIRAJ, and with Shabbat Unplugged. Friday Night Revived is her new recording. (www.Shechinah.com)

Cantor Ken Richmond is finishing two years as hazzan of the Midway Jewish Center, in Syosset, NY, and this summer will be returning to Red Sox territory as the new cantor of Temple Israel of Natick, MA. A violinist and singer, he has been founding and directing klezmer bands for years, including the Yale Klezmer Band, the Klezmaniacs, and Fish Street Klezmer. For his senior project at JTS’s Miller Cantorial School, he composed a new klezmer Friday night service, in collaboration with his wife, Shira Shazeer. He has been serving as a member of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Mahzor Committee, where he is composing congregational melodies for newly-inserted liturgical poems.

Rabbi Ethan Seidel has served Tifereth Israel Congregation in Washington, DC since 1992 when he and his family moved there from his first pulpit in Lincoln, Nebraska. Before being ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1988, he graduated from Oberlin College with degrees in mathematics and piano performance, and worked as a computer programmer. In addition to his musical interests, he loves studying Talmud, juggling, baking, gardening, playwriting, and unicycling. (www.tifereth-israel.org)

Hazzan Joanna Selznick Dulkin is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived in New York since 1998. She graduated with honors from Stanford University and received her Master’s Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture from the Jewish Theological Seminary's H.L. Miller Cantorial School in 2004. She currently serves as Associate Hazzan of Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY and will shortly be moving to St. Louis where she will become the hazzan of Shaare Zedek Synagogue. Her music has taken her to Hawaii, Israel, England, and Singapore, where she served as the High Holiday cantor for two years. She is a published composer and writer, and appears on several CD recordings.

Shira Shazeer has just graduated from the Scholars Circle at the Drisha Institute, after three years of studying Talmud and halakhah. She has been a composer and performer of klezmer and Yiddish music for many years. She is the lead singer and accordionist for the Klezmaniacs, her larger band, and for Fish Street Klezmer, her duo with her husband, Cantor Ken Richmond. She has produced several CDs and performed around the world. Her compositions have been featured at Lilith Magazine’s evening of new Jewish women’s music and at the Carlebach project at Makor. She participated in the American Jewish World Service’s Rabbinical Student Delegation to El Salvador this past winter. She will continue her studies at Hebrew College’s Rabbinical School in Newton, MA.

Juliet Spitzer is a singer/songwriter and has recorded six CDs of original Jewish (and general) music. She leads music and healing workshops in the Philadelphia area, and composes for and performs with Theatre Ariel, Pennsylvania's professional Jewish theater company. She is a member of the a cappella trio MIRAJ and the vocal ensemble SheWho, and leads creative services nationally with the musical troupes Shabbat Unplugged/ Havdallah Live and Tof b’Yadah. Her two solo CDs are Full Glory: Songs of Hope, Consolation, and Joy and Shifting Edge, and with MIRAJ, A Moon Note and Counting Angels in the Wilderness. She teaches on various topics in Judaism in the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. (www.julietspitzer.com)

Rabbi Margot L. Stein is an award-winning singer/songwriter who has produced or co-produced six albums of original Jewish music. A creativity consultant to the Jewish community, she utilizes the performing arts to teach Torah. She composes and sings with the a cappella trio MIRAJ and the troupe Shabbat Unplugged and teaches Jewish Ethics and Purposes of Jewish Living at Gratz College's Melton Adult Mini-School. Her musical play, Guarding the Garden, toured North America for four seasons, was seen by some 20,000 people, and was featured on the cover of Lilith magazine. (www.mirajtrio.org)

Irene Steiner has an MM from the University of Wisconsin, with a major in voice. A frequent soloist at synagogues and churches in the New York metropolitan area, she has also performed in operas, oratorios, musical comedies, and in art song recitals. A 1999 journey to Krakow with her parents, both Holocaust survivors, inspired a passion for Jewish music. In 2000 she produced the first of a series of annual concerts of Yiddish and other Jewish songs at Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. She has become deeply involved in creating musical settings for the poetry of Mordechai Gebirtig, Itzik Manger, and Simcha Simchovitch. Her work has won awards in the 2004 and 2005 Competition for Original Jewish Music. A partner at the law firm of Brown Rudnick in Manhattan, she lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She dedicates her efforts in performance and composition to her parents, Edward and Ruth Steiner, as well as to her grandparents, who perished in the Holocaust, and in particular to her grandfather Maks Steiner, who composed music for his synagogue in Krakow before the war.

Rabbi Meryam Zislovich is a mystic, shaman, kabbalist, artist, scholar, writer, story teller, cantor and rabbi. She was born and reared in Israel and graduated from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was a student of the performing arts. She was a member of a Palestinian-Israeli travelling theater troupe, then moved to California to study with Ali Akbar Khan, master of classical Indian music. She became a rabbi and cantor, and has been living in the Bay Area and Israel ever since. She believes that singing has the power to express and dissolve emotional and physical pain, and to effect profound healing within and without through communion.

Honorable Mentions

Sylvia F. Goldstein combines her classical music background with her love and knowledge of Jewish music. Her works include music for Shabbat, psalms, weddings, healing, nigunim, and various Jewish subjects, including a Hanukkah Oratorio. Several of her works have been published by Transcontinental Music. In 2004 she was a winner in the first Shalshelet Festival of New Liturgical Music. She teaches classical piano and theory at the Hartford Conservatory of Music, where she is Chair of the Piano Department. Other experiences include serving as temple music director, community college faculty member, and JCC choir director. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music, Preparatory Division, Cornell University, Brandeis University and the University of California at Berkeley. She has a B.A. and M.A. degree in Music, and is a member of the Connecticut State Music Teachers Association, the Women Cantors Network, and the Guild of Temple Musicians.

Hazzan Jack Kessler was ordained as a cantor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and served Conservative congregations for 20 years. During that time he received a Master's degree in voice from Boston Conservatory and pursued studies in composition in the graduate department of Brandeis University, where he worked with Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero, and Bethany Beardslee at Harvard. A lyric baritone, his performances have included opera and oratorio, the premiering of new works, and Hazzanut, the sacred cantorial art. Originally trained in the Ashkenazi tradition, his performance style and original compositions also embrace Sephardi and Mizrachi styles. He has lectured and taught master classes in Jewish music at New England Conservatory in Boston, the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. He is dean of the cantorial department of the professional training program of Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and teaches cantorial students. Currently he directs, composes for, and sings vocal lead with two touring ensembles: Atzilut - Concerts for Peace, a duo of Arab and Jewish musicians, and Klingon Klez, which presents Jewish music from other planets

Evette Nan Katlin has officiated as a cantorial shaliac h for the past 24 years, most recently as a guest for High Holidays at Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen, New Jersey. Evette has been a member of the New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble since 2001. She studied hazzanut privately with Cantor William Sharlin in Los Angeles, and through the Jewish Theological Seminary program in Jerusalem. She additionally coached with Hazzanim Brian Mayer and Faith Steinsnyder while living in New York. For the past 22 years, Evette and her husband, Hazzan Arthur Katlin, have concertized extensively as a musical duo. Evette is also a licensed psychotherapist with an expertise in the field of addictions. Dr. Katlin earned her PhD in health studies from Temple University, an MSW from Hunter College, and an MA in clinical psychology from Antioch University.

Rabbi Shawn Zevit lives in Philadelphia, PA but consults with institutions and faith communities across North America. He has over 20 years experience in spiritual leadership, human relations training, educational arts, teaching and performing.  An adjunct professor in Temple University's Human Relations Department, he is a founding member of Shabbat Unplugged, Playback Philadelphia, the Institute for Contemporary Midrash, and the Davenning Leader's Training Institute. He also performs traditional and new music from his CDs Heart and Soul and Sanctuary. He served as  the Director of Outreach & Congregational Services for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, and as a congregational rabbi in Philadelphia, Madison, Minneapolis and Amherst. He has also written and developed resources in the areas of community building, leadership, prayer, interactive midrash, contemporary views of God, money and Jewish values, and Jewish men's issues. (www.rabbishawnzevit.homestead.com)

David M. Pinansky has been composing for more than 25 years. Born in Portland, Maine, he has an undergraduate degree in music from Colby College and a law degree from New England School of Law in Boston. In addition to his instrumental works, he has composed more than a dozen pieces for the synagogue which have been heard in services and performances throughout the country. In 1982 he was the Grand Prize winner of the Second Biennial Jewish Composers Contest. He was a commissioned composer for the 1986 national convention of the American Conference of Cantors and Temple Guild Musicians. In 1988, the Texas Bach Choir premiered a new setting of L'Cha Dodi for choir, solo and organ. In 1994, his music was featured at a special service for Jewish Music Month at the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, and in 1996, he was guest artist at the Greater Baltimore Cantors Association where nine of his works were presented. In 2001, he was one of three composers in residence for the Reston Chorale’s Seasonal Celebration concert in Reston, Virginia. In May 2004, Silent Prayer was first presented in honor of the retirement of Rabbi Rosalind Gold. In 2005, he was guest composer for the Sabbath of Song at Temple Emanu El in Houston, Texas. He is a member of the Guild of Temple Musicians.