The Jewish Theological Seminary

Phone: (212) 678-8037 Fax: (212) 662-8989
Email: cantorial@jtsa.edu

H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music are two schools devoted to Jewish musical studies. They train select advanced students as hazzanim (cantors) for congregational service or as teachers of Jewish music, choral directors, composers, or research scholars. The H. L. Miller Cantorial School awards the diploma of hazzan, and the College of Jewish Music awards the master's degree in sacred music.

Students preparing for the cantorate are enrolled in both schools and are expected to complete the diploma program and the master of sacred music degree simultaneously, on a full-time basis, preferably within a five-year period. Students may also earn an MA in Jewish Education from the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education or an MA from The Graduate School while pursuing their cantorial studies.

Opportunities for a spiritually rewarding life are myriad. Positions for graduate cantors are available all over North America. As members of the clergy, cantors lead the community in prayer, teach the texts of the liturgy, and share pastoral duties with the rabbi. They are the authorities on Jewish music for both the Jewish community and the community at large.

Click here to watch the video about the H. L. Miller Cantorial School.

You can click and listen to an Audio File of our choir singing Veye'etayu, one of the great classics from the Rosh Hashanah service as composed by the great nineteenth-century composer and choir director, Louis Lewandowski.

Click Mi Khamokha to hear this song performed by our students.

Click Hallelujah to hear this song performed by our students.

Click Tik'u Bahodesh Shofar to hear this song performed by our students

Click on the links below for more information and the online application.

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