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Bios
Cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgot was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. From the tender age of five, after hearing Moshe Koussevitzky’s recording of “Akavia Ben Mahalalel,” Yitzchok Meir knew what his life's calling would be. At just eight years old, Cantor Helfgot recorded his first works, and then spent much of his childhood and teenage years studying voice and nussach (the art of prayer).
Chazzan Shimon Farkas is firmly established as one of the great cantors of our time, regularly invited as a guest cantor and concert artist throughout the world. His unique voice is “unusual in quality and range, brilliant in tone, and rich in emotional warmth and expression”
Russell Ger received his Master’s of Music in Orchestral Conducting from The Boston Conservatory in May, 2010. Prior to that, he studied both voice and musicology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has just returned from Australia where he conducted a highly successful season of Englebert Humperdinck’s famous opera, Hansel and Gretel for Pacific Opera and will be conducting the High Holidays in Toronto for one of the largest synagogues, Adath Israel.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Cantor Daniel Gildar studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, majoring in piano, theory and voice. In addition to his cantorial duties, Cantor Gildar has an international reputation as an accompanist of both cantorial and secular music. He has participated in seven historic missions to Eastern and Central Europe under the auspices of the Chaim and Gila Weiner Society for the Advancement of Cantorial Art.
