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Yosl (Joe) Kurland 2008│ Der Meshiekh Vet Ersht Kumen Judi Lamble 2008│ 'Oseh Shalom David Lefkowich 2006│ Mah Tovu Ira Scott Levin 2004│ Hashkiveinu
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Yosl (Joe) Kurland 2008│ Der Meshiekh Vet Ersht Kumen Judi Lamble 2008│ 'Oseh Shalom David Lefkowich 2006│ Mah Tovu Ira Scott Levin 2004│ Hashkiveinu
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Evette Nan Katlin has officiated as a cantorial sheliah for the past 23 years, the last 2 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, with Hazzanim Brian Mayer and Faith Steinsnyder, and through the Jewish Theological Seminary program in Jerusalem. For the past 21 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. She earned a PhD in health studies from Temple University, an MSW from Hunter College, and an MA in clinical psychology from Antioch University.
Shirona Kaufman, a native New Yorker, was raised in Israel in a musical, cultured environment and started performing at an early age. After serving in the Israeli army, she returned to the United States and starred in the nationally acclaimed Israeli-American musical review On Silver Wings. After taking time off to marry and raise a family, Shirona returned to the Jewish music scene with a newfound interest in new age and Jewish spirituality. She began composing original melodies to the ancient texts of the Bible and prayer book, using multicultural musical influences such as Celtic, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and American.
Hazzan Jack Kessler was ordained as a cantor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and went on to have a twenty-year career serving Conservative congregations. 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. A lyric baritone, he has performed opera, oratorio, and premiered new works, in addition to his ongoing career as a singer of hazzanut, the sacred cantorial art. Originally trained as an Ashkenazi hazzan, 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, and presented many concerts in an educational format. He dean of the cantorial department of the professional training program of Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, and teaches cantorial students. 
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. 
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 Hazzanut under Cantor Arthur Koret. Over the course of 27 years he served communities in Arizona, New York, Connecticut and Florida as a cantor, Jewish educator and professional storyteller. Currently he is the Cantor at Congregation Ohev Shalom in Marlboro, New Jersey. 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, Florida and New Jersey. 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.
Yosl
(Joe) Kurland took up violin in second grade in the Bronx and for
years played only classical music. Later he learned guitar, singing
the songs of Pete Seeger and The Weavers and the Yiddish folk songs
he heard on Theodore Bikel’s records. (Little did he know the
day would come when he would be singing in Yiddish on the stage of
Carnegie Hall with Pete Seeger.) While in graduate school in Chicago,
he began playing for international folk dance and performed with
the Balkanske Igre Balkan dance troupe. He was a founder of the Wholesale
Klezmer Band in 1982 and composed his first Yiddish song, the title
number of the group's first album, Shmir Me, in 1988. His formal
study of Yiddish began only after he turned 40, but he considers
Yiddish to be the native language he didn't learn as a child, a language
in which lends itself to speaking intimately with and about God.
Having grown up with traditional cantorial music in the synagogue,
he realized that in order to hear it in rural western Massachusetts
where he now lives, he would have to learn and sing it himself. He
serves as ba'al tfile for High Holiday and occasional Shabbos services
at two synagogues near his home. His day job involves printing ketubot
and other artwork designed by his wife, calligrapher Peggy Davis,
as well as his own photographic work. His songs appear on four albums
released by the Wholesale Klezmer Band. 
Judi Lamble performed in musical theatre and cabarets in her teens and 20s, sang soprano with the Chicago Symphony Chorus in her 30s, and made music as a featured vocalist with Minneapolis’s Temple Israel Nefesh Shabbat band in her 40s. Throughout, she composed, beginning with pop and jazz numbers for solo voice and piano and migrating to serious choral music as her commitment to Judaism deepened. Her choral and congregational works are now regularly performed by the Nefesh Shabbat band and Temple Israel’s congregational choir and have been solicited by secular and sacred choirs around the country. In the interstices between musical adventures, she graduated from Barnard College, earned a law degree from the University of Michigan, married, practiced law, and reared two daughters—a flautist/drummer and a pianist/vocalist. 
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. 
Ira Scott Levin has worked with children in the Jewish community in California for the past 11 years in summer camps, after-school programs, and Hebrew day schools. He has performed alternative high holiday services and family services for Peninsula Temple Sholom, I Burlingame, California, and plays flute and clarinet at Templ Emmanuel's services. Ira has composed material for two CDs with the rock band Comfy Chair, Elie Wiesel's Trial of God, the children's CD Hippo on My Head, The Sultan of Time, and a Jewish Soulfolk CD, Madlik Oti. He has recorded a music video for Velvet Mustache and a full-length video for the television pilot Uncle Eye Show. His "Part of the Divine" received an Honorable Mention in the Northern California Songwriter’s Association Song of the Year contest.