Introducing…
Ayden, Music Director, Mezzo
Batya, Alto
Batya is a third generation New Yorker, who loves to read, write, and arrange A Cappella music for fun! She spent four years in the Chai Notes, Cornell University’s best and only Jewish A Cappella group, and is excited to be a part of a group again.
Ben S., Bass
Ben has been singing in vocal ensembles and musical theatre groups nonstop since age 4. He started as a boy soprano, but these days he sings the bass line, plus occasional vocal percussion. He’s been a member of singing groups in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington, and the United Kingdom. In his non-musical life, he’s a computer programmer and is writing about himself in the third person, which is weird.
Ben T., Bass
Camryn, Mezzo
Debbie, Alto
Jessica, President, Mezzo
Originally from San Francisco, Jessica now lives in Pennsylvania and travels to NYC to sing with Cadence, and with her office a cappella group, ScaleAbility. Previously, she sang with Honorable Menschen, a post-collegiate Jewish a cappella group in Boston, with Techiya, MIT’s Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli a cappella group, and with a variety of other choirs and collegiate/community musical theatre shows in California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. When not singing, Jessica can often be found working as a software engineer at Google NYC or backpacking along the Appalachian Trail with her spouse Ariel, whom she met in Techiya.
Josh, Music Director Emeritus, Baritone
Hailed by “Godfather of A Cappella” Deke Sharon (Glee, Pitch Perfect) as “dynamic, bold, and audacious,” Josh Ehrlich is a composer, lyricist, accompanist, music director, music educator and soon-to-be-cantor based in New York City. Josh has written hundreds of musical theatre orchestrations and acappella arrangements for ensembles all over the New York area and in Israel. He made his Off-Broadway compositional debut in 2017 with The Imbible: Day Drinking, which ran at New World Stages for three years. In 2021, The Cantors Assembly published Josh’s The Choral Torah: Five Books in Four Parts, a collection of fifty-four eclectic acappella settings of biblical text (one composition for every parashah.) Josh founded and directs The Choral Torah Collective, a choir of Judaeo-musical educators that performs and promotes musical and biblical literacy at communities from Highland Park, NJ to Highland Park, IL. With a Bachelors in Linguistics from Yale University and a Masters in Composition from Rutgers University, Josh has worked as the music director for Golda Och Academy, the Leffell School, and Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. He currently studies at the H.L. Miller Cantorial School and is the Student Hazzan at New City Jewish Center. As a cantor, he hopes to continue his mission of using fresh four-part harmony to reanimate our most ancient words and to create interfaith choirs which transcend religious boundaries through shared harmony.
Lawrence, Tenor
Liza, Mezzo
Liza is so thrilled to be a part of Cadence! After singing for four years with Ketzev, Johns Hopkins’ only Jewish a Cappella group, Liza loves being part of another Jewish a Cappella family here in NYC. Hailing originally from upstate, Liza loves traveling, cooking, and exploring New York.
Maddy, Alto
Marc, Tenor
Michael, Tenor
Miriam, Soprano
Miriam grew up in southern Jersey and enjoyed singing jingle medleys with her sibling band as a kid. Miriam, a musical theatre nerd, starred in a number of school musicals. Later she fell in love with acappella while attending collegiate arts festivals. After singing through a gap year in Israel, Miriam attended Binghamton University where she joined Kaskeset, Binghamton’s Jewish acappella group. Post college she joined NYC-based acappella groups, including Cadence. Miriam earned a Master’s degree in Early Childhood, General, and Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and is the Assistant Director at a downtown Jewish preschool.
Rachel M., Mezzo
Rachel loves singing as much as she loves bagels, which is a lot! When she’s not singing at Cadence rehearsals, she can be found singing in her pre-k classroom. She also spends her summers at an overnight camp in Pennsylvania. Her other interests include manicures, 16 handles, and NYC street fairs.
Rachel X., Mezzo
Rachel (the other one!) was forced to join choir in middle school and has been singing ever since. She has sung a cappella with Princeton University’s Koleinu and Google NYC’s ScaleAbility. Outside of work and rehearsal, she enjoys baking cookies, taking long walks, and admiring bodega cats.
Robbie, Tenor
Robbie Cohen-Millstein hails from the great state of Pennsylvania and currently resides in Westchester County with his husband and three children. He is the Principal Broker of The Millstein Group LLC, a boutique real estate brokerage focusing on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and Upper East Side. Originally a graduate from the joint program between Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA) — where he sang in Pizmon and Nonsequitor — he currently sits on the Board of Trustees at JTSA. Post college, he sang in New York’s Meto Mass Gospel Choir and the Upper West Side’s Avir.
Ron, Vocal Percussion, Baritone
Sarah, Soprano
This is Sarah and she sings Soprano! She was raised in Westchester, NY, and now proudly hangs her hat on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She attended college at Binghamton University, where she graduated with a BA in Psychology and was a member of the Jewish a cappella group, Kaskeset. She received her master’s in social work at NYU and is currently a geriatric social worker at the Carter Burden Leonard Covello Senior Center in Spanish Harlem. She loves being an aunt to the cutest nephew in the world and is a proud member of our awesome group, Cadence.
Tamar, Business Manager, Alto
Tamar attended Binghamton University where she fell in love with the Jewish a cappella group, Kaskeset, as well as the group’s musical director, Eric Dinowitz. 🙂 She became the group’s vice president and then president, organizing the group’s tours and performances. Having enjoyed her work so much with local synagogues and Jewish organizations, Tamar decided to devote her career to Jewish nonprofit work and has worked for organizations such as United Synagogue Youth and AIPAC. She married her Kaskeset partner in crime Eric, and the two welcomed their twin boys in February 2015. Tamar looks forward to the day her musical boys find their own acappella group to love.
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