Biography

I graduated with a BA in Music from the University of Bristol in 2020 and have continued to develop my skills in performance (solo and ensemble), composition, and musical directing. I am currently providing paternity cover for the role of Cantor at The Great Synagogue of Stockholm, lending my voice to Masorti Judaism UK’s Shema Koleinu Tefillah (prayer) Skills Resource, teaching 2 profile courses at Paideia folkhögskola (The Music of Shabbat and Jewish Music: Ensemble and Song), and performing for the Israeli Embassy here in Stockholm.

When the pandemic kept us from singing and playing together, I dove headfirst into the world of music production, taking online courses with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and lending my musical ear to a new form of collaborative music-making. One Lockdown Cabaret, an A Cappella single, and many a virtual choir later, I may still have nightmares about low-quality phone recordings, but being able to bring my arrangements to life more than makes up for it.

Pursuing my interest in Jewish sacred music, both ancient and contemporary, I completed Hadar’s Davening fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Spring 2022 and am working towards the European Academy for Jewish Liturgy’s Baal T’filla Diploma.

My first live performance post-pandemic was an original composition for voice and cello - a collaboration with acclaimed poet Jane Liddell King - as part of the Cambridge Festival in April 2022. I discovered Menachem Weisenberg’s arrangements of classical Israeli songs for Mezzo-soprano (recorded by Mira Zakai in 1989) for a charity concert the following June 2022, and have since endeavoured to perform this wonderful repertoire whenever possible (click here for a performance of Ma Omrot Einayich, December 2023). In that same concert, I had the privilege of singing (through megaphones) the powerful Love Song duet from ‘The Shouting Fence’ by Orlando Gough. A couple of weeks later I gave a two-part recital of classical solo cello and Jazz voice as part of New North London Synagogue’s Intermezzo concert series.