Hazzanut 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… Continue Reading
Hazzanut At St. Pölten Synagogue Cantor Heller, 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… Continue Reading
Hazzanut In Budapest at the Rumbach Synagogue for the 14th European Cantors Association annual convention Cantor Heller, November 7, 2022October 5, 2023 Attending the 14th European Cantors Association annual convention in Budapest at this beautiful Synagogue built 1872 and restored in 2021 by the Hungarian government. For 5 days, almost a 100 of us, coming to pray from all over the world to share experiences, knowledge and our music. Two choirs joining… Continue Reading
Hazzanut At St.Martin in the Fields Cantor Heller, March 25, 2022September 21, 2023 As guests for the interfaith first ‘Faithful Voices’ concert on 24 March St Martin-in-the-Fields. sponsored by the Zemel Choir, the Belsize Square Synagogue Professional Choir together with St. Martin’s own Chamber Choir, the West London Choir, the Zemel Choir with their soloist Cantor Robert Brody; Divyanand Caird (Saraswati Veena) and… Continue Reading
Hazzanut Weddings are back Cantor Heller, August 2, 2021June 14, 2022 Yesterday 1st of Aug 2021, finally Lisa and Gary had their chuppah planned before the pandemic and postponed twice, it was a memorable occasion, they hired our Sanctuary, beautifully designed for this type of ceremony, professional quartet, and organ in the loft, music as in our repertoire, this a little… Continue Reading
Cantorial My music online Cantor Heller, 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… Continue Reading