Joyce Rosenzweig
Music Director
Joyce Rosenzweig has served as Music Director of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah since 1994.
Ms. Rosenzweig performs as piano soloist, chamber player, and accompanist to singers and instrumentalists in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. She has appeared as soloist with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Texas Festival Orchestra, as well as in recital at the National Holocaust Museum and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, the Sayde Bronfman Centre in Montreal, and at the Museum for Jewish Heritage and Carnegie Hall in New York. She has collaborated with ensembles from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
Ms. Rosenzweig has participated in the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Music Festival, the Round Top Festival (Texas), the International Jewish Music Festival (Amsterdam), the Jewish Cultural Festival (Berlin), the Ashkenaz Festival of New Yiddish Culture (Toronto), and the Franz Schubert Institute (Vienna), where she was awarded First Prize in Lieder Accompaniment.
In 2000, Ms. Rosenzweig performed concerts in Prague, Budapest, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, and Amsterdam, and throughout the U.S.
A leading figure in Jewish music and in the education of cantors and synagogue musicians, Ms. Rosenzweig serves as Artist-in-Residence at Hebrew Union College in New York, where she teaches courses in Yiddish, Israeli, and Sephardic song, modal harmony, and is the conductor of the School of Sacred Music Choir and pianist and coach for recitals and services. She is a sought-after performer, coach, and lecturer on Jewish music, and has collaborated in recital with most of the great cantors of this generation. Her arrangements and improvisations on Yiddish folksongs are well-known.
Ms. Rosenzweig and the CBST Community Choir have appeared at the North American Jewish Choral Festivals for the past two summers to great acclaim.
