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Sylvia F. Goldstein 2008│ Mi Yodea Oz Steven Greenman 2008│ Yah Ribon 'Alam Terry Horowit 2008│ Tov LeHodot • Da’ • Ohila La-El Sharone Horowit-Hendler 2008│ Mah Adam Katy Jordan 2008│ Ma’ariv Aravim with Robbi Sherwin
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Sylvia F. Goldstein 2008│ Mi Yodea Oz Steven Greenman 2008│ Yah Ribon 'Alam Terry Horowit 2008│ Tov LeHodot • Da’ • Ohila La-El Sharone Horowit-Hendler 2008│ Mah Adam Katy Jordan 2008│ Ma’ariv Aravim with Robbi Sherwin
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Mezzo-soprano Dr. Isabelle Ganz received her DMA in Voice and Music Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She teaches voice at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX and directs the choir at Congregation Brith Shalom and the HaZamir Chorale in Houston. In 1997, as a Fulbright Scholar, she taught at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and conducted research in Sephardic music at Hebrew University. In 1992 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant. She has premiered and recorded many works composed for her, including Ryoanji for Voice and Percussion by John Cage. Her New York-based ensemble, Alhambra, has performed throughout the world and recorded three CDs of Sephardic songs. She is listed in the International Who’s Who in Music. 
Cantor Marcelo Gindlin, born and raised in Buenos Aires, now lives in southern California where he serves as Cantor of the Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue and teaches at the University of Judaism. In addition to certification as Hazzan & Ba’al Tefillah from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, he has earned two degrees in music therapy and has extensive experience as a teacher, composer, choir director, and performer. His music can be heard on two CDs, Alfie’s Bark Mitzvah (accompanying the book by the same name) and Tot Shabbat with Cantor Marcelo. He has performed with the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, at CAJE national conferences, and at synagogues around the U.S. In 1986 he performed in Buenos Aires with Ofra Haza (z”l), and in 2007 he was selected to officiate at Kabbalat Shabbat on the occasion of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s visit to the University of Judaism. 
Mark Glicksman came to music composition after beginning piano lessons at around age 50. In addition to composing choral pieces, he enjoys writing songs in styles ranging from calypso to doo-wop, singing in the choir at Reconstructionist Congregation Or Hadash in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, gardening, and cooking for family and friends. His day job is in engineering and software design.
Rabbi Shefa Gold is a leader in Aleph: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal and is the director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She composes and performs spiritual music. Her liturgies have been published in several prayerbooks, and she has produced ten music albums. She presents workshops and retreats on the theory and art of chanting, devotional healing, spiritual community-building, and meditation. She received ordination from both the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Her grounding in Judaism in combination with a background in Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Native American spiritual traditions enables her to serve as a spiritual bridge celebrating the shared path of devotion. 
Hazzan Devin Goldenberg’s compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by a wide array of artists and professionals, synagogue, church and university ensembles worldwide. He has a long list of theatrical, television and film credits as actor, musician, writer, director and producer. Having led congregations in California, Arizona and Massachusetts for over twenty years, he is now on the faculty of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts. 
David Goldstein is a composer of Hebrew chant and sacred choral works. His Song of Songs Suite for Women's Choir was recently premiered at West Virginia University. He is the leader of the Tikkun Chant Circle in Pittsburgh, and a recent graduate of the Kol Zimra Chant Leadership training program led by Rabbi Shefa Gold. He was formerly Composer in Residence at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. David is also a business director at PPG Industries, Inc. He lives with his family in Wexford, Pennsylvania. 
Sylvia F. Goldstein brings a classical music background and love for and knowledge of Jewish music to her compositions, which have been featured in the Annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford since its inception eight years ago. In addition to composing, she has been a director of temple music, taught at community college, and directed a JCC choir. She is currently Piano/Keyboard Department Chair of the Hartford Conservatory of Music, where she teaches classical piano and theory. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music Preparatory Division, Cornell University, Brandeis University and the University of California at Berkeley. She has a BA and MA in music, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Connecticut State Music Teachers Association, Women Cantors Network, and The Guild of Temple Musicians.
Steven Greenman is a klezmer violinist and composer of klezmer music. He produced and is lead performer on Stempenyu's Dream which contains his original Jewish and klezmer compositions. A co-founder of the Khevrisa ensemble, he also co-produced and is lead performer on Khevrisa-European Klezmer Music on the Smithsonian Folkways label. He currently leads the Stempenyu's Dream ensemble, Di Tsvey, and the Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble. He has taught klezmer music at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, KlezFest London, Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth and Klezmer Wochen Weimar and has performed at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland and at Toronto's Ashkenaz-A Festival of New Yiddish Culture. He also performs Hungarian nota, Romanian lautari music and urban East European Gypsy music and performs with the ensemble Harmonia, which he co-founded. He has been a regular guest soloist with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra performing his own arrangements of traditional East European Gypsy violin music and klezmer music. 
Cantor Terry Horowit taught herself guitar at the age of 10 and started writing folk songs a couple of years later, continuing to compose for guitar and voice through graduate school at Brown University. After a hiatus of many years, her lifelong love of folk music combined with a profound respect and appreciation for Hebrew text led her to begin composing settings for prayers and liturgical texts. Her music has been chosen for all three Shalshelet Festivals. She completed the cantorial certification program at Ma'alot Seminary in Rockville, Maryland where for 15 years she tutored b'nei mitzvah and taught adult classes in cantillation and aspects of Jewish practice. She also was lead vocalist with the performing group Shalshelet (not affiliated with the Shalshelet foundation). In 2007, Terry moved with her family to Albany, New York where she is now the process of establishing herself as a teacher of trope and nusach, and meeting local musicians. She hopes to create a new performing group and to fulfill her dream of recording an album of her original songs.
Sharone Horowit-Hendler is a senior at Brandeis University majoring in linguistics with a minor in mathematics. She is currently working on the topic for her senior thesis, concerning pragmatics of the Hebrew language. Sharone composed her first melody at the age of twelve, a new tune for B'zeit Yisroel. She is self-taught on the guitar and tin whistle. Her hobbies include LARPing, watching and reading sci-fi, having fun with her friends, photography, and playing with her cats. 
Katy Jordan, an Austin, Texas native, is a kinesiology major and athletic trainer at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, and hopes to be one of the few professional female athletic trainers in the NBA. She is one of very few Jewish students at her large university, which has made her very strong and extremely proud to be Jewish. She is thankful to her parents for sending her to Greene Family Camp for Living Judaism in Bruceville, Texas, and is also grateful to Birthright Israel for the opportunity to experience her homeland. She cut her musical teeth playing trombone for 6 years, and she fondly remembers singing to Debbie Friedman’s Live at the Del CD during long road trips to Colorado on family vacations. She and her mom, Robbi Sherwin, have collaborated on three songs together; one is the title cut on Sababa’s first CD, Pray for the Peace. She was 13 years old when she co-wrote Ma’ariv Aravim.