Monday, June 27, 2016 Shacharit

Led by Cantor Liz Sacks and Cantor Jamie Marx

Torah Readers: Ellen Jaffe-Gill, Miranda Beckenstein, Louise Treitman
Torah Reading – Monday Shacharit

Accompanist: David Schlossberg
Percussionist: Gaston Bernstein

Convention – Monday T’filah Cue Sheet
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Dave Schlossberg is a collaborative accompanist and composer from Monroe, New Jersey. Although he mainly serves Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, he also is an accompanist for the following groups, among others: New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble; Makhelat Hamercaz, the Jewish Choir of Central New Jersey; and Kol Dodi, the Jewish Community Choir of Metro-West.  Dave hopes, through composition, to help elevate Jewish musical repertoire and make it both spiritually resonant and accessible.  He enjoys working with synagogue music because of the many opportunities for harmonic creativity and expression. Dave loves the challenge of bringing out the inherent beauty of Jewish texts and ideas.

Gaston Bernstein was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was part of Marshall Meyer’s Comunidad Bet El temple growing up – singing in the Choir and leading services.  He emigrated to Southern California in 1982, where he graduated college at the University of California.  He has been working as a synagogue percussionist for over 15 years and has played in concerts with various Jewish artists including Craig Taubman, Danny Maseng and Rick Recht.  Gaston moved to Philadelphia with his wife Hazzan Sandy Bernstein and their two daughters in 2013.  In Philly he is the Band Leader of Shir Joy, the synagogue band at Congregation Beth El Ner Tamid, and singer/percussionist at the Neshamah Band at Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park.