Please plan on attending a very special sisterhood Shabbat on Friday March 7th and Saturday, March 8th with a concert featuring Cantor Steinsnyder the evening of March 8th. Watch your calendar for more information.

Cantor Faith Steinsnyder was born in Philadelphia, raised in Miami, and received her training in Indiana and New York. Her mentors and coaches include Hazzanim Jacob Mendelson, Moshe Ganchoff and Max Wohlberg. She was the first woman invited to teach traditional cantorial repertoire at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and at New York’s Academy for Jewish Religion. She currently serves on the faculties of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School of JTS, and the School of Sacred Music of HUC-JIR. She has served traditional and Reform congregations from Maryland to Massachusetts, and recently received a Doctor of Music, honoris causa, from HUC-JIR. She has appeared in cantorial concerts across North America, the Netherlands and Curacao, and has performed operatic roles with companies in the New York City area. She is a member of the Mantua Singers, an a cappella ensemble conducted by Matthew Lazar, and she teaches voice each summer at the North American Choral Festival. Voted among the top ten Jewish female singers by Moment Magazine and Jewish Women Magazine, her recordings include Nishmat Chayim and Made in America, by Michael Isaacson, The Birthday of the World, with the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble and Leonard Nimoy, and the title role in Stephen Richards’ opera, The Ballad of Ruth, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The New York Times praised her performance at Carnegie Hall and her recordings with the Western Wind as “stunning”.