Welcome to the 2008 Jewish Music Festival

Benzion Miller

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Cantor Miller’s singing career began at the early age of five. He is cantor at the prestigious Beth-El Congregation of Borough Park, now known as the Young Israel Beth-El of Borough Park.

Benzion Miller is a graduate of Bobover Yeshiva in Brooklyn, NY and the Bobover Yeshiva Kedushat Zion in Bat Yam, Israel. He received his basic knowledge and training in the art of Chazzanut under the guidance of his father cantor and Mohel, Reb Aaron Miller. Acclaimed as one of the foremost interpreters of liturgical Music, Benzion Miller is equally at home in operatic repertoire and Jewish and Hasidic folk Music. He has appeared with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Rishon L’Tzion Symphony, the Haifa Symphony and members of the London Symphony. He recently recorded for the Milken Archive, in Barcelona, Spain with the Barcelona National Symphony Orchestra.

Benzion Miller was privileged to be among the first group of cantors to visit and sing in the Eastern European countries. He has appeared before capacity audiences in Romania, Russia, Poland and Hungary, where he sang with the Budapest State Opera Orchestra. Benzion appears on many recordings of liturgical, Hasidic and Yiddish music.