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Roslyn Barak
American Reform cantor and opera singer. Born in New York City. Attended Manhattan High School of Music & Art. B.A. in vocal performance, Manhattan School of Music. Master of Sacred Music, 1986, Hebrew Union College. Also attended SF School of Psychology. Made Carnegie Hall debut with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of New York. 1974-77, Israel National Opera. 1987 began as Cantor of the Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. Won Liederkranz Award and the Minna Kaufman Ruud Foundation prize. CD: "The Jewish Soul".
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Lea Bar-Nes
Born in Jaffa, Israel in 1904. Composer.
Marla Rosenfeld Barugel
American cantor. Born, 1956. Graduated (with Erica Lippitz) in May, 1987 as the first women from the Jewish Theological Seminary to be awarded the degree of Hazzan. Spanish teacher, and international banker before entering the Seminary. Cantor Barugel works at Congregation B'nai Israel in Rumson, NJ.
Marion Bauer
American. Composer. "Marion Bauer (15 August 1882-9 August 1955), daughter of French Jewish immigrants in Washington state, was a member of what scholars have called the "forgotten vanguard" of modernism..." Musicologist Dr. Melissa De Graaf has written a biographical sketch of Marion Bauer for the Jewish Music WebCenter, which can be viewed here as a pdf file. Dr. De Graaf's work is copyrighted. Please contact JMWC if you need more information about the use of this article.
Bathya Bayer
Israeli ethnomusicologist. Born in 1928 in Bingen, Germany. Her contributions were made at the Jewish Research Centre of Hebrew University. She wrote about the music of ancient Israel, based on archaeology.
Michal Beit-Halachmi
Israeli born clarinetist Michal Beit-Halachmi graduated from Givatayim Conservatory, where she studied with Eva Wasserman-Margolis. She
continued her musical studies in the United States at Indiana University and Duquesne University, receiving her Bachelor of Music Degree in 1999. In 2002, she received her Master of Music degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook, under the tutelage of Charles Neidich. She has been a scholarship recipient of the America- Israel Cultural
Foundation since 1997. She has toured Russia and Armenia with the American- Russian Young Artist Orchestra, performances at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany) and a concert in the
Salzburg Festival with members of the Vienna Philharmonic. Other festival appearances include the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, and
Domaine Forget in Quebec, Canada. Ms. Beit-Halachmi has concertized extensively as a soloist and chamber
musician throughout Israel and in Russia, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and the United States. She performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra in 1997. In 1999 she won the Pittsburgh Concert Society Award, which entitled her to a solo recital that took place in October 2000.
Featured on WQED-Pittsburgh in November 2001, she performed works presented on her solo CD, “Air Craft”- homages to famous composers, including Bach, Paganini, Debussy, Bartok and others by Hungarian
composer Bela Kovacs. The CD also features the “Overture on Hebrew themes” by Sergei Prokofiev with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She made her New York recital debut as winner of artists international 2002 young clarinetists on Saturday, March 8, 2003 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Miri Ben-Ari
Question: What's a small-town-Israeli-Jewish girl jazz-fusion violinist doing playing hip-hop with Jay-Z, in a Twista video, on MTV, or supporting top pop with Janet Jackson? Answer: Having a super rocket ride career up in pop music, that's what. To read more about her, see her website.
http://www.miriben-ari.com/main.html
Raizie Benguigui
Raizie is a singer who has fused traditional lyrics with modern rhythms, singing in four languages (English, Hebrew, French and Spanish). Raizie has
performed for women audiences in Venezuela, Israel and Canada and has produced a CD for Jewish women.
http://www.raizie.com/
Rhoda Bernard
American. Vocalist specializes in Jewish music in Yiddish and Hebrew. Lives in Boston area.
Lauren Bernofsky
Lauren Bernofsky is a composer and violinist living in Baltimore, MD, and educated at Hartt College, Boston University and the New England Conservatory. Her music has been published by several houses including Boosey & Hawkes.
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Jeanette Bernstein
American. Born January 22, 1898. St. Louis, Missouri. Founded the El Dorado Conservatory of Fine Arts in El Dorado, Arkansas. Papers held in the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati.
Cantor Marie Betcher
Cantor. Operatic Vocalist. Educator. Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, IN; Masters of Music, Vocal Performance Florida State University School of Music, Tallahassee, FL; Certification & Investiture as Cantor Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion-School of Sacred Music, New York City. Performances include: Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Piccolo Spoletto in Charleston SC; and tours in concert in Sicily and England. She has won operatic competitions such as the West Palm Beach Civic Opera Competition and was a finalist at The Dallas Dealey Awards Competition. She has sung with symphony orchestras such as The Las Vegas Symphony, The Pittsburgh Symphony and The Austin Symphony. Her performances have taken her from Toronto to Beverly Hillsto New York and many cities in-between. Her repertoire spans from Puccini and Verdi operas to Brahms Lied and Faure Chanson to Bach and Handel arias. Cantor Betcher freelances. She has served congregations across the country as Cantor. She also sings in Fundraising Concerts Jewish music, Opera and Broadway selections. Her website is:
www.mariebetcher.com.
Charlotte Bodenstein
Born Dec. 15, 1891 in Vienna. Died Dec. 22, 1977. Soprano. AKA Lotte Schöne Classical music and opera. Concertized widely after WWII.
Suzie Bolotin
Vocals, keyboards, and the occasional nose flute or comb-and-waxed-paper. Currently singing and playing with a band called South of Delancey.
Sylvia Braitman
French-born mezzo-soprano Sylvie Braitman graduated from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has performed with various regional companies. She is a performer in the fields of opera, art song, folk and popular music. Braitman focuses on 20th century music-- she has premiered opera roles such as Mrs. Vallejo in David Conte's The Dreamers (Sonoma Opera), Anja in Philippe Manoury's 60th Parallel conducted by Kent Nagano (Berkeley Symphony). Other roles include Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Madame Larina in Eugene Oneguin, Thisbe in Cenerentola and Mercedes in Carmen. She is a regular feature of the Berkeley Jewish Music Festival and has conceived various one-woman-shows that tell the story of her family's Holocaust experience through the use of Yiddish music, acting and story telling. She has explored the rich repertoire of Argentine tango with guitarist Cem Durüoz as well as French melodies from the eighteenth to the twentieth century with harpist Dominique Piana. She enjoys singing the Cabaret songs of her native Paris, and is specialist of the style in the Bay Area. Her two albums "French Cabaret Song" and "Les Demoiselles de Pigalle" are available in most Bay Area record stores.
www.sylviebraitman.com
Karen Braunstein
American Cantor and klezmer musician. Bachelor of Music, New England Conservatory, 1981. Hebrew Union College-School of Sacred Music, invested as cantor, 1988. Started the band “Shirim” in Boston. Served various pulpits as cantor and guest-cantor in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. Currently serves Temple Shaarei Shalom, a Reform temple located in West Boynton Beach, Fl.
Fanny Brice
Aamerican. Born October 29, 1891, New York. Died May 29, 1951, Beverly Hills, California. New York theatrical singer and comedienne. Starred in the Ziegfeld Follies. Following a success with Irving Berlin, she continued Yiddish style comedic songs. Brice toured as a vaudevillian, and also was featured in several Broadway shows in the 1930s. She became known for her onstage antics and Yiddish ethnic humor. She went on to radio and created the Baby Snooks character.
Rachel Buchman
American Music Specialist with children aged 6 and under, with a multicultural focus. Buchman uses a variety of percussion instruments, violin, banjo, harmonica, slide whistle and recorder. She stresses participation of the children. The CD "Jewish Holiday Songs for Children" has several songs by Rachel.
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