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Cindy Paley
American vocalist, guitarist, teacher and singer-songwriter residing in Sherman Oaks, California. Sings in Yiddish, Hebrew and English. Attended a Yiddish Kindershule. B.A. in French, UCLA. Worked for over thirty years as director of children's music at Temple Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. Cantorial soloist at UCLA Hillel. Specializes in children's music. Has recorded eight CDs of Jewish and children's songs. Her albums include: Celebrate With Cindy Vol. 1 and 2; What a Happy Day; S'iz Yontev Kinder Lomir Zingin!;
Chanukah a Singing Celebration; Shabbat Shalom; Zing with Cindy Paley; Yavo Shalom; A Singing Seder;
Koleet: a Celebration of Jewish Folk Music.
http://www.cindypaley.com/
Hadass Pal-Yarden
Israeli. Singer of Judeo-Spanish music. Ph.D. candidate, ethnomusicology at the Program on Ladino Folklore, Ladino Department, Bar-Ilan University. Research student at the Technical University of Istanbul-Conservatoire, Turkey (Vocal Department) where she studied folklore, classical Turkish music, and makam. Research interests: the song in Ladino in the contemporary stage. Research assistant at the Jewish Music Research Center at Hebrew University on the cataloging of the Ladino song collection at the National Sound Archive. Her first solo album, Yahudice: Urban Ladino Music from Istanbul, Izmir, Thessalonika and Jerusalem (Kalan, 2003), was released in Istanbul. Judith Cohen, has said of her CD: "excellent Hadass Pal-Yarden cd --one of the rare cases where I've barely ANY criticism!! except for her harmonized Moroccan
version of the ballad "Landarico", --which is at odds with the rest of her
VERY fine, tradition-based interpretations throughout the cd -- probably
the best I've heard in the genre."
Ada Pelleg
"Israeli born. Received her B.A. in Piano Performance from the Chicago Music College and M.A. in Composition from Indiana School of Music in Bloomington, both degrees with Distinction. While a student she received the First Prize in the Molly Margolis Piano Competition in Chicago, as well as numerous scholarships and Distinctions.
Among her teachers were Prof. Ludmila Lazar (Piano) and Prof. Fred Fox (Composition)
Ms. Pelleg studied conducting with Henry Mazer, Associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Pelleg was awarded a conducting fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival, a scholarship to study with Frederick Prauznitz at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hoplkins University in Baltimore, and a fellowship to a special master class with Max Rudolph at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In addition, she participated in Master Classes with Sergiu Celibidacce in The Munich Philharmonic and Ghenadi Rhozdesvensky in Sienna. In 1987, Ms. Pelleg served as Music Director and Conductor of the Columbia International Music Festival and taught theory and composition at the Frederick College in Maryland. She returned to Israel in 1991, and served as Music Director of the Jezreel Music Center, taught at Haifa University, and published articles in various professional publications. In 1996, she founded the Haifa Music Center. Ms. Pelleg is currently Music Director and Conductor of the Haifa Festival Orchestra. She has also conducted the St. Petersburg State Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, The Columbia Festival Orchestra and the Aspen Festival Orchestra." Information for this bio provided by the Haifa Music Center.
Roberta Peters (Peterman)
American. Born May 4, 1930, New York. Currently serving on the board of the National Endowment of the Arts. Star of the Metropolitan Opera in New York where she sang over 500 times. She experienced tremendous success giving concerts and recitals with major orchestras, and master classes around the world. She married Robert Merrill, and later Bertram Fields, and had two children. Her memoir is Debut at the Met (1967).
http://www.northwood.edu/dw/1989/peters.html
Molly Picon
Born, June 1, 1898, New York. (nee, Margaret Pyekoon.) Died, April 5, 1992, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mega-star of the Yiddish stage and movies. Her papers are held at the American Jewish Historical Society in the Center for Jewish History. An online finding aid gives a brief biographical sketch about her wildly successful career, spanning over 70 years in theater, stage and film. One of her most famous appearances in the Yiddish film Yidl Mitn Fidl(1937). The YIVO Archives also has holdings of Picon.
http://www.cjh.org/academic/findingaids/AJHS/nhprc/MollyPiconb.html
Lauren Pomerantz
American singer. Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. Specializes in the music of Spain and Sephardic Jews. Her albums include "Jewels of the Sephardim," "Wings of Time" and "The Radiance of Faith."
http://www.laurenpomerantz.com/about.html
Marianna Povolotzky
Israeli violinist. Born, 1975 in Moscow, Russia. Entered Tchaikovsky Central Music School. Immigrated to Israel 1990. Studied at Jerusalem Rubin Academy and Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. Member of young Israeli Philharmonic. Won first prize at Tel Aviv Academy chamber music competition, 1996. Appeared as soloist with Ra'anana Symphonette, Tel Aviv Academy Symphony, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Member of second violin section, Israel Philharmonic since 1996.
Eve Rabin Queler
American. Born January 1, 1936 in New York City. Conductor, pianist. First woman appointed conductor to a metropolitan orchestra and first woman to conduct at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall. Also the first woman to conduct on a commercially recorded opera. (Massenet's Le Cid, 1976) Ms. Rabin grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home. A child prodigy, she received a scholarship by age 5. She attended New York City High School of Music and Art. Later she studied at CCNY and conducting at Mannes College of Music. She also studied at the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music. Started vocal coaching and rehearsal accompanist at New York City Opera in 1957-(8). Then, in graduate school, studied conducting with Carl Bamberger and later with Joseph Rosenstock at the Metropolitan Opera. Founded the New York Opear Workshop, later called the Opera Orchestra of New York, where she conducted concert versions of operas. Later, conducted many other opera orchestras and major symphony orchestras throughout the United States. According to Jane W. LePage, Eve Queler is "the best trained, most experienced and most promising woman conductor in America today." (Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 1).