Biography
I am currently enrolled in my fifth year of the Master of Sacred Music/Diploma of Hazan program at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. It is a five year program leading to investiture as Cantor. I look forward to a lifetime of serving Jewish congregations around the USA and perhaps even overseas as a member of the Jewish clergy, as a vessel of Jewish music tradition in all its richness.

I am a proud recipient of the Margaret R. Rice Scholarship Fund, the Dr. Hirsch Herman Scholarship Fund, the LCU Foundation Housing Grant, and the Sanders and Pikus Family Scholarships. 

Hazzanut improvisation for the textual insertion 'biy'mei matisiyahu,' added to the amida during Hannukah.
Performed at Kehillat Netzach Israel, Ashkelon, Israel, as part of a Hannukah concert November 30, 2013.

Cantorial students at JTS demonstrate progress in learning traditional chazzones through yearly Vocal Boards. I chose to sing Moshe Ganchoff's Al Hatzadikim from his weekday mincha service, which I first encountered in Cantor Mendelson's class at Klezkanada 2012, and then coached with Cantor Nadel at JTS. While I wouldn't use this in my service leading (it's too long for a weekday service), it's well worth learning for its own sake, as a beautiful piece of music and a masterful interpretation of the text.

Sample Service
A yearly, 15-minute nusach presentation is a part of my cantorial studies at JTS. I put together an Avodah service for Yom Kippur, with the help of my coach Cantor Nadel, and a fabulous women-only vocal quartet (Summer Greenwald-Gonella, Jennifer Rolnick, Sarah Levine, and Hillary Chorny). Thanks to Ethan Goldberg for filming this video (in two parts). 

Working Experience: Shaliah Tzibur

• *Beth Shalom Oceanside Jewish Center (OJC), Oceanside, New York, led weekday, Shabbat and Festivals as the Cantorial Intern, August 2014-present.
• Conservative Yeshiva minyan, Jerusalem, Israel, led weekday services: November, 2013-June 2014.

• Kehillat Netzach Israel, Ashkelon, Israel, led Shabbat services: October 2013-June 2014.
• Schechter Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, led weekday and Shabbat services: October-November, 2013.
• Moreshet Yisrael, Jerusalem, Israel, led weekday and festival services, gave drashot: September 2013-June 2014.
• Kibbutz Ketura, Israel, led Shabbat Shacharit: October, 2013.
• *Congregation Ohav Shalom, Albany, NY, served as Cantor for the Yamim Nora'im: September, 2013.
• Temple Israel, Albany, NY, led Rosh Hashanah mincha: September, 2013.
• Yiddishvokh, MD, Shabbat Ba'al Musaf for egalitarian services (in Ashkenazic Hebrew): August 2013.
• East Midwood Jewish Center, NY, led Shabbat and Weekday services: June-July 2013.
• Congregation Shaare Zedek, NY, led Shavu'ot musaf at dawn: May, 2013.
  
• White Meadow Temple, NJ, led Shabbat shacharit, April, 2013
  
• JACS Retreat, NJ, led Shabbat ma'ariv: April 2013.
• Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, FL, led Kabbalat Shabbat and Weekday ma’ariv: February, 2013.
  
• *Temple Beth Shalom, FL, served as Ba’al Musaf and Darshan for a Seminary Shabbat: January, 2013.
• Ansche Chesed, NY; Shabbat Shacharit and Musaf for Sanctuary Minyan and Minyan Rimonim, 2011-2013.
• JTS Cantorial School minyan; Weekday and Hol haMoed services: 2011-2013.
• JTS WLSS; Shabbat, Festival Ma’ariv and Weekday services: 2010-2013.
• *Congregation Har Shalom, served as Cantor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur parallel services: September, 2012.
• Temple Beth El-Mekor Chayyim, NJ; Shabbat service: May, 2011.
• *Gomley Chesed, served as Cantor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, September, 2011.
• Temple Beth Ahm, NJ; Birchot HaShahar, Psukei D'zimra for Shabbat: April, 2011.
• North Shore Temple Emanuel, as part of the Temple Voices program: 2008-2010.
• Kadima Congregation; Shabbat service: May, 2009.
  

Working Experience: Ba'al Koreh

• **Beth Shalom Oceanside Jewish Center (OJC), Oceanside, New York, chanted Torah as the Cantorial Intern, August 2014-present.

• Kehillat Netzach Israel, Ashkelon, Israel, Torah: October 2013-June 2014.
• East Midwood Jewish Center, NY, Torah and Haftarah: June -July 2013.
• JTS Women’s League Seminary Synagogue, Torah, Haftarah, Megillah: 2010-2013.
• Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, FL, Haftarah: February 2013.
  
• Chavurah minyan, NJ, Megillah, 2012.
• *Gomley Chesed, Torah and Haftarah, September, 2011.
• Oranienburgerstraße Synagoge, Berlin, Germany, Torah: January, 2011.
• North Shore Temple Emanuel, Torah, Haftarah: 2004-2010.

Here's a recording from JTS WLSS Purim 2012:

* Asterisk indicates professional positions.

Photographs from (left to right) Julian Voloj, Miriam Alster (leading Women of the Wall for Rosh Hodesh Iyar 5774), Mark Kovnatskiy, Summer Greenwald-Gonella, used with permission.