Guests at the Academy 2017-2018

Guest artists of the Faculty of Performing Arts:

Ms. Ayisha Syed Castro - guest violinist from the Dominican Republic

Violin master classes  - July 2017

Prof. Mark Schnaible - senior member of the Vocal Faculty, Music Conservatory of Brooklyn College

Vocal master classes - October 2017

Mr. Rodrigo del Pozo - head of the Vocal Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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JAMD Alumni Roï Azoulay Among 2017 Grammy Award Winners

JAMD alumni Roï Azoulay, conductor of the choir at Montreal’s Congregation Shaar Hashomayim synagogue, as well as the synagogue choir and the synagogue cantor, shared a Grammy Award that was posthumously awarded to Leonard Cohen.

The title song of Cohen’s final album, "You Want it Darker", won the American music industry’s award for Best Rock Performance of the year.

Azoulay helped arrange the song and conducted the choir accompanied by Cantor Gideon Zelermyer.

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