南希·艾布拉姆森
H主任. L. Miller Cantorial 学校 and College of Jewish Music, Senior Lecturer of Hazzanut
Department: Jewish Music, Jewish Education, H. L. Miller Cantorial 学校, College of Jewish Music
Phone: (212) 678-8036
电子邮件: naabramson@mi-destino.net
Building Room: Brush 503
Office Hours: By Appointment
传记
BA, 哥伦比亚大学; BHL, The Jewish Theological Seminary; MA, 师范学院, 哥伦比亚大学
Cantor 南希·艾布拉姆森 is director of H. L. Miller Cantorial 学校 and College of Jewish Music of The Jewish Theological Seminary. She trains future hazzanim in prayer, nusah (the sacred music of prayer), and religious leadership, and oversees their expanded development in Jewish education and teaching, 田园保健, 和现代以色列. She is helping JTS shape cantorial arts and practices for the 21st century. Cantor Abramson is past president of the Cantors Assembly, the largest body of hazzanim in the world, and now serves on the board of the C.A. 基金会. She previously served as two-time national convention co-chair of the the organization, and was its the first female officer.
Cantor Abramson has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, 艾弗里·费雪大厅, and the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and sung with the Rinat Choir in Israel under the baton of Zubin Mehta. She currently teaches the weekly Nusah Beit Shira seminar and coordinates the Mifgash. Cantor Abramson created the graduate course Leading Communities in Prayer and Song. In 2012–2013, she organized a five-concert series under the aegis of the JTS Arts Advisory Board, two with the renowned Juilliard 学校 of Music (JTS Presents: An Evening of Juilliard Vocal and Chamber Music and JTS Presents The Juilliard Jazz Ensemble: The Jewish–African American Jazz Experience). The series also included the 纽约 premiere of Eight Days of Chanukah by composer Abraham Kaplan at the We Are Lights: Music for Chanukah concert, and a semi-staged performance of the new opera Steal a Pencil for Me, by Cantor Gerald Cohen, JTS assistant professor of music.
A prominent figure in the cantorate, Cantor Abramson came to JTS from 纽约 City’s Park Avenue Synagogue, where she directed all musical aspects of congregational life and developed curricula for b’nai mitzvah. She was previously cantor at Congregation Sons of Israel in Briarcliff Manor, 纽约, where she developed an innovative curriculum for teaching musical tropes, and for 12 years she served at West End Synagogue in Manhattan as founding cantor and organizer of the congregation’s Hebrew school. She also taught at the Abraham Joshua Heschel 学校 in 纽约, coordinating the tefillah and bar/bat mitzvah programs. Cantor Abramson sits on the board of the Zamir Choral Foundation and the Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble. She is a past board member of the Women Cantors’ Network.
Cantor Abramson is a graduate of the Joint Program between the Albert A. 大学列表 of Jewish Studies of JTS and 哥伦比亚大学, from which she earned a BHL in Jewish 历史 and a BA in Music, 分别. She received her cantorial education at JTS, and earned a master’s degree in Music Education from 师范学院, 哥伦比亚大学.
