Guest Cantor Richard Cohn
Since July 2015, Cantor Richard Cohn has been the Director of the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, following 34 years of stellar service to Reform communities in the Chicago areas and Dallas, Texas. As such, he is the gatekeeper to tomorrow's leaders of synagogue music! After Bachelors and Masters degrees in Vocal Performance, his conducting expertise of Greater Chicago, a group he founded and led for nine years; has been a frequent principal conductor at the North American Jewish Choral Festival; led the URJ Biennial Choir in 2003; and has conducted HaZamir- the International Jewish High School Choir in concert at Lincoln Center.