At the 16th European Cantor’s Convention Cantor Heller, December 6, 2024February 13, 2025 In Budapest, colleagues and friends, Hazzanim (prayer leaders) and music scholars, to share our knowledge aimed at enhancing community engagement through prayer. An example of our rehearsal can be heard here before Shabbat in the beautifully designed Rumbach Synagogue, known for its impressive architecture and intricate stucco walls. Also my participation at the gala concert in tribute to Maestro Hazzan Naftali Herstik zz”l, with whom I sung in Prague in 2016 this piece he conducted with his students of the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute. My lecture on the original organ from Temple times II BCE that demonstrates it’s more Jewish than that it has roots in the Church, as many that oppose its use in Synagogue would falsely argue. Bringing the Temple organ to the Synagogue Related Hazzanut CantorialEuropean Cantors AssociationHazzanutLewandowskiLiturgySulzer
Hazzanut At St. Pölten Synagogue April 18, 2024April 22, 2024 By invitation of the Institute of History of Jews of Austria. I had the privilege of participating in the re-inauguration ceremony of what was once my father’s parents and family’s Synagogue in St. Pölten, Austria, which suffered from the 9th of Nov 1938 pogrom and went through several renovations. This… Read More
Hazzanut At New London Synagogue September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 An evening of song invited by the song shul of Canada in their tour with Cantor Simon and Mrs Aliza Spiro. Hosting at New London Synagogue it’s Cantor Yoav Oved and guest Cantor David Rome who shared songs composed by British Jewish composers accompanied by the excellent pianist Leo Nicholson…. Read More
Cantorial My music online May 19, 2021November 1, 2022 Being a Cantor under the pandemic For Our Congregation -June 2020 By Cantor Paul Heller When asked by the editors of Our Cong (our Synagogue magazine) to share my experiences in the last months of lockdown, this came to my mind. In the introduction to my own homepage I wrote… Read More