Cantor
Binyamin Glickman is a fifth generation Yerushalmi. As a
boy he sang in the famous Rivlin Choir with whom he appeared on the
radio as soloist. After graduating as a conductor from the Rubin Academy
of Music, he began to conduct choirs in Israel. He performed in the
second and third Zimriyot in 1955 and 1958 with the choir of the
combined religious kibbutzim of Emek Bet Shean. From 1960 he served as
Cantor of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, California, for 22
years. During this period he returned to Israel to participate in the 67
and 73 Wars. While serving as Cantor of Beth Jacob he was also the music
director of the largest Jewish Day School in the West where he developed
a 250 children choir and a 44 children orchestra. He taught hundreds of
children how to become Torah readers and Cantors. More than 30 young
adults who were his students are serving today as cantors on the High
Holidays. As a matter of fact, one of his students, Josh Sharfman,
recorded the whole year-round services and put it on the Internet,
accessible to anyone who would like to learn at www.Virtualcantor.com.
From 1970-1980 he also served as the music consultant to the Bureau of
Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles, serving the orthodox,
conservative and reform schools. During that time he took a Youth Choir,
which he established, to Israel to participate in the triennial Zimriyah.
In
1982 Cantor Glickman and his family returned to Israel and he was
immediately appointed as the Director of the Center of Jewish Music in
Gush Etzion. At the same time he was invited to conduct the Jerusalem
Cantors’ Choir. He was their conductor for ten years until he left back
to the United States in 1992. In 1991 he took this choir for a
concert tour to the United States where they performed before
communities on the East and West coasts.
In 1986, Cantor Glickman established and directed the "Shirat
Yerushalayim", the Jerusalem Center for Jewish Music. Its main goal was
to preserve our rich musical heritage and to transmit it to the next
generation. Shirat Yerushalayim produced publications, recordings and
choirs across Israel, and in 1990 and 1992, under the auspices of Shirat
Yerushalayim and the Joint Distribution Committee, Cantor Glickman led
seminars in Moscow and Leningrad for cantors from all over the former
USSR.
In 1992 Cantor Glickman returned to the United States to serve as cantor
in Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Connecticut. In 2001 Cantor
Glickman returned to Los Angeles to take the position as cantor in
Congregation Mogen David. In the summer of 2003, he brought his Los
Angeles Choir to Israel on a Musical Solidarity Mission where they
joined with Cantor Glickman’s former choirs and together they performed
in concerts in Jerusalem, Ramat Gan and Gush Etzion.
In february 2007, Cantor Glickman was again
invited to conduct the Jerusalem Cantors Choir.
These are some of the highlights of the activities of Cantor Glickman
who has dedicated his life to Jewish music with the strong belief that
through music you could bring Jews closer to God and Israel.
Former
Conductor
Uri (Uriel) Aharon has been the musical director and
conductor of
the Jerusalem Cantors' Choir since 1993 and till january 2007.
He has recently submitted
his doctorial thesis on Tedesco Jewish Music to Tel-Aviv University.
At present he lectures at both seminaries in Jerusalem: Michlala l'banot
and Lifshitz seminary.
He plays the flute and is also a composer of folk and liturgical music
Cantor
Binyamin Glickman is a fifth generation Yerushalmi. As a
boy he sang in the famous Rivlin Choir with whom he appeared on the
radio as soloist. After graduating as a conductor from the Rubin Academy
of Music, he began to conduct choirs in Israel. He performed in the
second and third Zimriyot in 1955 and 1958 with the choir of the
combined religious kibbutzim of Emek Bet Shean. From 1960 he served as
Cantor of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, California, for 22
years. During this period he returned to Israel to participate in the 67
and 73 Wars. While serving as Cantor of Beth Jacob he was also the music
director of the largest Jewish Day School in the West where he developed
a 250 children choir and a 44 children orchestra. He taught hundreds of
children how to become Torah readers and Cantors. More than 30 young
adults who were his students are serving today as cantors on the High
Holidays. As a matter of fact, one of his students, Josh Sharfman,
recorded the whole year-round services and put it on the Internet,
accessible to anyone who would like to learn at www.Virtualcantor.com.
In
1982 Cantor Glickman and his family returned to Israel and he was
immediately appointed as the Director of the Center of Jewish Music in
Gush Etzion. At the same time he was invited to conduct the Jerusalem
Cantors’ Choir. He was their conductor for ten years until he left back
to the United States in 1992. In 1991 he took this choir for a
concert tour to the United States where they performed before
communities on the East and West coasts. 
Uri (Uriel) Aharon