Yitzchak Meir Helfgot
Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (
Career
In addition to having held several prestigious cantorial posts in Europe and the United States, Helfgot has performed in concerts all over the world. In December 2006, under the auspices of Cantors World, he performed a solo concert at the
His solo albums, recorded with a renowned authority on cantorial music, Dr. Mordechai Sobol, led to popular success. Despite the bombast of the musical arrangements, the vocal quality harks back to the golden age of chazzanut, where legendary Jewish cantors like Yossele Rosenblatt and Moshe Koussevitsky produced albums that featured both devotional prayers and traditional Jewish folk songs.
In 2012, Helfgot broke new ground with the unprecedented collaboration between a cantor and a world-class classical musician. Renowned violinist
Helfgot is chief cantor of the Park East Synagogue in New York City.[1]
Discography
Solo albums
- Borchi Nafshi (2002)
- Habet (2004)
- Avot (2005)
- Mevaser Tov (2007)
- Helfgot 5 (2015)
Collaborations
- Shirat Yisrael (2006) with Chaim Eliezer Hershtik & Israel Rand
- Eternal Echoes (2012) with Itzhak Perlman
See also
References
- ^ "Park East Synagogue". Park East Synagogue. 1930-03-20. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
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