Cantor Amy Goldstein
Scarsdale,USA
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Sinai Free Synagogue
Full-time Cantor
01.2018 - Current
- Cantor, Temple Composer, Music and Choir Director, Religious School Music, B'nei Mitzvah tutor, Pastoral Care, coordinate services with the Rabbi and engage volunteer/lay musicians, integrating a wide range of traditional and contemporary music and and liturgy for enhanced worship experience. Attract and collaborate with high-end Jewish Music colleagues such as Noah Aronson, both at our Temple and in outside performance/recording.
- Build and maintain rapport with Westchester area Cantors as a member of Kol Hazzanim, attending regular group meetings and presenting musical performances to the greater Westchester area.
- Coordinate fundraising efforts to support synagogue music concerts and programs.
- Offer private Voice lessons to adult and teen congregants.
Principal/Director of Education
Sinai Free Synagogue Religious School
01.2018 - 01.2024
- Director of Education of the Sinai Free Religious and Hebrew Schools overseeing grades K-7 and weekly Youth Torah Study. Adapted to Temple budgetary constraints by including the hiring of licensed/trained teachers and staff from within our lay community. Authored and implemented the Religious School web pages. Implemented the school's first paid Madrich (Youth Leader) program. Coordinated student-led music and other presentations for Family Shabbat and holidays. Collaborated closely with parents to address individual student and family concerns, focused on success for each child.
Temple Beth Jacob of Newburgh
Cantor/Religious School Music Teacher
01.2012 - 01.2017
Sutton Place Synagogue
Cantor/Song Leader of Friday Night Lights Kabbalat Shabbat Service
01.2011 - 01.2012
Congregation Kol Ami of White Plains
Hazzan Sheini/Assistant Cantor High Holidays
01.2010 - 01.2012
- With Cantor Mo Glazman.
Tree of Life Congregation
High Holiday Cantorial Soloist and Guest Shabbat Cantor
01.2005 - 01.2008
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
High Holidays Cantor/Hazzan Sheini and B'nei Mitzvah Tutor
01.2000 - 01.2004
Full-time Cantor
East Bay Reform Temple
01.1993 - 01.1997
Camp Eisner Clergy Faculty
URJ Camp Eisner
01.2019 - 01.2020
B’nai Mitzvah Staff tutor
Congregation Kol Ami
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Congregation Kol Ami of White Plains, NY, with Cantor Mo Glazman
Voice Teaching Experience:
America’s Got Talent, Metropolitan Opera Oswald Studio, 2014 Olympics Commercials, Former Faculty Manhattan School of Music, Concordia College
2004 - Current
Education
B.M, M.M. -
Manhattan School of Music
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Timeline
Camp Eisner Clergy Faculty
URJ Camp Eisner
01.2019 - 01.2020
Sinai Free Synagogue
Full-time Cantor
01.2018 - Current
Principal/Director of Education
Sinai Free Synagogue Religious School
01.2018 - 01.2024
Temple Beth Jacob of Newburgh
Cantor/Religious School Music Teacher
01.2012 - 01.2017
Sutton Place Synagogue
Cantor/Song Leader of Friday Night Lights Kabbalat Shabbat Service
01.2011 - 01.2012
B’nai Mitzvah Staff tutor
Congregation Kol Ami
01.2011 - 01.2012
Congregation Kol Ami of White Plains
Hazzan Sheini/Assistant Cantor High Holidays
01.2010 - 01.2012
Tree of Life Congregation
High Holiday Cantorial Soloist and Guest Shabbat Cantor
01.2005 - 01.2008
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
High Holidays Cantor/Hazzan Sheini and B'nei Mitzvah Tutor
01.2000 - 01.2004
Full-time Cantor
East Bay Reform Temple
01.1993 - 01.1997
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Voice Teaching Experience:
America’s Got Talent, Metropolitan Opera Oswald Studio, 2014 Olympics Commercials, Former Faculty Manhattan School of Music, Concordia College
2004 - Current
B.M, M.M. -
Manhattan School of Music
Professional Jewish Music Artist and Jewish Background
- Principal Naxos recording artist for the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music including Yiddish Theater, Cantorial and Liturgical music. Please see www.milkenarchive.org for details.
- Principal artist with the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theater. (www.folksbiene.org)
- 2019 honoree in Women’s History Month for lifelong contribution to Jewish Music.
- Granddaughter of Willy Epstein, Leader of the famed Epstein Brothers Klezmer Orchestra
- (see “A Tickle in The Heart” documentary: (9) the epstein brothers - a tickle in the heart - YouTube.
- Daughter of Cantor Jacob Goldstein, Protegee, Choir Director, Music Director, and arranger for Moishe Oysher, Moshe Ganchoff, David Werdyger, Leibele Waldman, and many other Golden Age Cantors.
- Former Director of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus of NYC (www.circle.org) (2008-2010)
- Winner of the 2003 Artists International Competition Prize for performances of the music of Jewish composers that died in Terezin with the Motyl Chamber Ensemble, resulting in a Carnegie Recital Hall debut (www.motylchamberensemble.org)
- Numerous TV appearances for The Jewish Music Hour, hosted by Gary Lawrence.
- Israel Bond concerts, Urbana, Illinois and S’de Boker, Israel.
- U.S. Premiere of Tzvi Avni’s Se questo è un uomo, a Holocaust piece based on the poetry of survivor Primo Levi. Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Yaacov Bergman conductor.
- Soloist in many landmark Holocaust benefits including a Tribute to Steven Spielberg and Oscar Schindler at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Anne Frank Remembered, Schocken Bible Live, and CUNY Holocaust Programs, Great Music for a Great City.