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Cantor Arianne Brown
Sinai Temple
Los Angeles, California 90024
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www.cantorari.com
Becoming a cantor is the fulfillment of my lifelong dream. I feel incredibly blessed to be in a
profession where I have the ability to positively affect the lives of people of all ages. I hope to always
have the chance to inspire our people to love and connect to Judaism through prayer, education, and
the beautiful music of our tradition.
CANTORIAL EXPERIENCE
2006-present Cantor, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, CA
Liturgical
Led Shabbat and holiday services of all styles, including traditional services, contemporary
services with guitar and band, services with organ and choir, Shabbat in the Park (preschool age),
Shabbat at Home (young professional age), and STARS Shabbat (school age) services
Officiated at life cycle events
Read Torah regularly and Megillat Esther on Purim
Coordinated student participation in Shabbat and holiday services
Created master recordings of all Torah and Haftarah readings
Increased participation of teen and adult Torah readers
Brought Web Parasha to Sinai an online system where congregants can sign up to read Torah
Created the Second B nai Mitzvah program to celebrate congregants coming of age at 83
Created Shabbat Musaf transliteration booklet, edited Mount Sinai Shiva books
Educational
Created and implemented a system of teaching trope involving color coordination, hand symbols,
and singing in order to teach students the skills of reading Torah and Haftarah
Taught trope and tefillah in the day school to 4th-6th grades
Taught trope and tefillah in the religious school to 4th-7th grades
Supervised Religious School music, taught music to grades K-7, coordinated musical events
Prepared over 500 students for b nai mitzvah through group and individual training
Revamped and taught the Confirmation class for our teens
Created and taught an Intro to Yiddish course, created a Yiddish Club
Taught various Adult Education classes
Created STARS Players a program in which students who play instruments learn to accompany
prayers
Created an Advanced Torah Reading Workshop to encourage students to read Torah after their
b nai mitzvah
Musical
Created a children s choir that sings at synagogue services and community events
Created a community theater
Produced, fundraised, directed, and appeared in two large scale musicals for Yom HaShoah
Participated in synagogue concerts as well as various community, national, and international
concerts
Performed regularly for Caf Europa (survivor group), Children Survivors of the Holocaust,
Westwood Horizons, Israel Bonds, and other charitable organizations
Prepared sisterhood members for Sisterhood Shabbat and for the Sisterhood Mincha Choir
Participated in yearly Sisterhood Retreat
2002-2006 Cantor, Beth El, New London, CT
2004-2005 Cantor, Shomrei Emunah, Montclair, NJ
2003-2006 Cantor, Beth Sholom, Roslyn, NY (High Holidays)
2002 Cantor, Lakeland Hills Jewish Center, Lakeland Hills, NJ (High
Holidays)
2002-2004 Torah reader, Shlichat Tzibur, Park Avenue Synagogue, NY
2002 Judaic studies teacher, Camp Ramah in the Berkshires
2002 Music student teacher, John Adams Middle School, Woodbrook
Elementary, NJ
2001 Cantor, Dix Hills Jewish Center, Dix Hills, NY (High Holiday
Family Services)
1998-2004 Gabbai Women s League Seminary Synagogue, Rutgers
University Hillel
1994-1998 Religious School Music Teacher, Emeth Shalom, Margate, NJ
1992-2006 B nai Mitzvah Instructor, Princeton Jewish Center, Neve Shalom, Metuchen, NJ,
Private tutoring
1988-2001 Choral singer, Soloist, Shlichat Tzibur Beth El, Margate NJ, Beth Torah Adath
Yeshurun, Miami FL, Dix Hills Jewish Center, Dix Hills, NY
PERFORMING EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Featured in Cantors Assembly s New Faces of the Cantorate
Movies: 100 Voices: A Journey Home, Reunited
Sang National Anthem at Dodgers Stadium and Home Depot Center
Performed at Carnegie Hall, Disney Concert Hall, Kodak Theater, Lincoln Center, and off
Broadway
Directed theatrical productions at Sinai Temple and the Ida Kaminska Theater in Warsaw
Jewish music performances in Warsaw, Krakow, Paris, Toronto, Israel, and the US
Performed regularly with the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
Created a Jewish musical trio called Ashira that performed nationwide
Many musical theater and opera roles
RECORDINGS
Eternal Flame A Yiddish Love Story solo album released 2010
Suddenly Spirited Ashira trio released 2007
The Spirit of Chanukah Cantors Assembly/USCJ recording 2005
Shabbas at the Shore Choir and solo vocals 1994
PUBLICATIONS
Traditional vs. Contemporary Two Musical Paths to Jewish
Spirituality American Jewish University s Vision Magazine 2010
The Khazntes published in the Journal of Synagogue Music 2007
Dear Cantor author of bi-weekly advice column in Yiddish
Forverts 2007-2011
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Cantors Assembly member of Executive Council
Guild of Temple Musicians
American Choral Directors Association
American Jewish Committee
MERCAZ
AWARDS
2008 Cantors Assembly Commission
2006 Forverts Writing Award for Young Yiddish Writers
2005 Hazzan Max Wohlberg Alumni Award
2004 Richard W. Briskin Cantor-in-Residence Award
2004 Arthur Einstein Memorial Prize in Composition
2002 Cantors Assembly Hazzanut Study Award
2002 Olga Burian Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music
2001 Tulchinsky Award for an Outstanding Future Jewish Professional
SPECIAL SKILLS
Expert Torah and Megillah reader
Choral conductor
Pianist
Composer and arranger
Theater director
Actress
Fluent Yiddish
Conversational Farsi
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Arts in Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
2005 Investiture as Hazzan and Master of Sacred Music, Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
2002 Bachelor of Music Education/Voice, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
1998 High School Diploma, Hebrew Academy of Atlantic County, NJ
REFERENCES
Available upon request
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