Vocal and Cantorial Coaches
Vocal and Cantorial Coaches
Cantor Marcie Jonas, Can'10
Cantor Marcie Jonas, Can’10
School of Jewish Music
Cantorial Ordination, Hebrew College
Cantor Marcie Jonas has been connected to Jewish music in a professional capacity for more than 35 years. She earned her BA in Speech Communication from Ithaca College and her MA in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. She has also studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. Jonas graduated and received her Cantorial Ordination from Hebrew College, School of Jewish Music, in 2010. Her background in Jewish Education and her personal connection to the synagogue environment has helped her to be keenly aware of the growth and development of the synagogue service and the role that music plays in that process.
Frank Kelley
Frank Kelley
School of Jewish Music
M.M., College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Frank Kelley is an American tenor who has performed in concert and in opera throughout North America and Europe. He has appeared with the San Francisco Opera, Brussels Opera, Boston Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), and the New Israeli Opera. He has worked with the director Peter Sellars on projects including “Così fan tutte,” “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Die sieben Todsünden.” Kelley has sung under conductors Craig Smith, Christopher Hogwood, Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, and Sir Roger Norrington. His discography includes recordings of Stravinsky’s “Renard,” Bach’s “St. John’s Passion,” the title role of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” and Aldridge’s “Elmer Gantry.”
Cantor Michael McCloskey, MJEd and Can'07
Cantor Michael McCloskey, MJEd and Can’07
School of Jewish Music
Cantorial Ordination, Hebrew College
Michael McCloskey has served since 2007 as cantor-educator at Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA, where he facilitates daily minyan, serves as hazzan for Shabbat and holiday services and conducts adult-learning programs. Before that, he served as a cantorial soloist-educator and taught at Prozdor of Hebrew College. A graduate of the Aspen Musical Festival Vocal Concert Studies program, McCloskey has sung with the Bostonians, a Boston opera company run by baritone impresario Richard Conrad, and Kol Arev, the choral ensemble of Hebrew College.
Hazzan Elias Rosemberg
Hazzan Elias Rosemberg
School of Jewish Music
Cantorial Ordination, Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano
Hazzan Elias Rosemberg obtained the degree of Hazzan and Singing Professor from Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires in 1994. In addition to his vocal training, he studied music theory and harmony at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory of Music. In 2001, Hazzan Rosemberg moved to the United States and served as the cantor of Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, until 2007. He is currently the cantor of Temple Emanuel in Newton, MA, the largest Conservative synagogue in New England. Hazzan Rosemberg performs regularly with the Bostonian Opera and Concert Ensemble and the Zamir Chorale of Boston. He is currently the New England Region chair for the Cantors Assembly and has served in their national executive council.
Cantor Robbie Solomon
Cantor Robbie Solomon is a prolific and eclectic composer of Jewish music whose works range from popular songs written for his iconic musical group, Safam, to choral works, which have become staples in the repertoire of The Zamir Choral Foundation. Among other compositions, he has authored several Friday night services, a full-length musical “The Orphan Queen”, and many individual works for the synagogue. Internationally known from his many recordings, he also plays a number of instruments.
Along with an Orthodox upbringing in Baltimore, Maryland, and rabbinical study at the Hebrew Union College, Cantor Solomon received conservatory training at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. He is certified with both the Reform and Conservative movements, and is the Cantor Emeritus of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. He has returned to Massachusetts where he spent most of his career and is happy to be near his children and grandchildren.