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Boruch Leib Rosowsky
… Born in Naliboki, Vilna, served as cantor in the Great Synagogue of Riga and was a very popular cantor of his time. Rosowsky composed several works for the synagogue, the most important of which was Schirei Thefiloh . …
Jan Radzynski
… Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1969, and studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. In 1977, he moved to the U.S. and studied at Yale University where he was a … awards include two ASCAP Standard Awards (1989, 1997) and the Mellon Fellowship (1985). According to Yuval Shaked, [1] …
Jacob Rappaport
… with Zeidel Rovner , and started performing as a cantor at the age of 18. He immigrated to the United stated in 1920. There he held different cantorial positions, and devoted …
Shelomo Zalman Rivlin
… Born in Jerusalem where he officiated as cantor at the Shirat Israel Synagogue for 60 years. He trained many of today's notable Israeli cantors, some of whom sang in the 'Shirat Israel' cantor choir that was established by … Shlomo , he tried to create a musical style that fuses the European and the Oriental traditions. Sources: …
Mendi Rodan
… born in Yassi, Romania. He studied violin and conducting at the Bucharest Academy of Music (1945-1949) and later worked … Rodan conducted various orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; the Be'er Sheba Orchestra, which he also directed …
Europa Rossi
… Also know as Madama Europa. She was a female singer in the Gonzaga family court of Mantua, Italy in the late 16 th and early 17 th centuries. Europa was the sister of composer and musician Salamone Rossi , and the …
Moshe Rudinow
… Rudinow was born in Liubech, Ukraine. He was orphaned at the age of eight, and was placed in the custody of Gedaliah Weinhause, a local cantor. Already at a young age he appeared as a cantor in the local synagogues. In 1904 he was brought to Kiev, where …
Ephraim Skliar
… Belarus, and moved to Slutsk at an early age. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1890, and later at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1903, he took part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in …
Max Spicker
… Born in Köngisberg, Germany, and immigrated to the US in 1882. After settling in New York, he worked as a conductor for the Beethoven Mannerchor , served as director and instructor at the Brooklyn Conservatory, was an instructor at the National …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
… he sang his piyutim himself. His piyutim bare traces of the language found in early piyutim, and they are marked by the pain of the persecutions of the Jews in Bar-Isaacs' …