Cantor Bernard Savitz is a graduate of the Talmudical
Academy of Baltimore, Yeshiva College, the James Striar School
of Jewish Studies, and the Cantorial Training Institute, all
in New York City. In addition, he spent a year at Bar Ilan University
in Ramat Gan, Israel, studying opera and music theory.
Cantor Savitz is an ordained Hazzan with the Cantors Assembly,
a member of the Guild of Temple Musicians, a lifetime associate
member of the American Conference of Cantors, and a member of
the Jewish Ministers Cantors Associattion.
Born in Binghamton, New York, Hazzan Savitz has been a fulltime
Cantor for 25 years, having served prestigious congregations
in New York, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona. He has achieved
an international reputation in Torah chanting, Cantillation,
Hazzanic interpretation, and creative improvisation. He has
composed and arranged many Cantorial, congregational and folk
melodies, including hundreds of secular and religious parodies,
and he wrote original settings in Ladino for the major motion
picture, Triump of the Spirit.
Cantor Savitz studied voice and music with renowned Metropolitan
Opera coaches William Lewis, Gorgio Tozzi, and famous cantors.
He also trained and sang with the Tri-Cities Opera of Upstate
New York, a major training centor for scholarship winners of
the Metropolitan Opera. Hazzan Savitz sings in a total of nine
languages.
He is a great animal lover, and has worked for many years on
behalf of pet adoption and the Humane Society. Cantor Savitz
is a member of the National Institution for the Deaf and Blind.
He is an active member of the United States Association of Table
Tennis, winning a Gold Medal at the World Huntsman Games, and
was also involved in the Oscar-winning motion picture, Forest
Gump.
Cantor Savitz is "not just a beautiful voice."
His enormous versatility, pastoral experience, wonderful
sense of humor, and unique rapport with all age groups; combined
with a vast knowledge of all branches of Judaism and excellence
as a Jewish educator, make Cantor Savitz one of today's most
sought after Jewish professionals. |
