Moshe Schulhof, an icon of the cantorial world and superstar of the concert stage, was born in New York City and
began his singing career there as a child prodigy at the
early age of six, when he performed a cantorial piece
before an audience of 2,000 in New York. Foreseeing a great
cantorial career in his future, at the age of eighteen the
famed Cantor David Kusevitsky took him under his personal
tutelage. Growing up, Moshe learned to sing in seven
different languages and eventually decided to follow in the
spiritual path of his father who was a rabbi and his
grandfather, who was a cantor in
Austria.
Schulhof
studied
cantorial singing and opera in New York and Montreal
conservatories. At the early age of 18, he was appointed to
his first pulpit in New York. Subsequently, he has held
some of the most important cantorial positions in Montreal,
Los Angeles and Miami as well as at the famed Concord Hotel
in New York. As an internationally renowned concert artist,
Moshe is in constant demand on the concert stage as well as
guest cantorial appearances throughout the world thrilling
Jewish as well as non-Jewish audiences the world over.
Until October 2005 he served for nine years as the cantor
of the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Beth Jacob in North
Miami Beach, considered by many as the premier cantorial
pulpit in the United States today, where his awesome vocal
talent and spiritual guidance inspired thousands of
congregants.
During
his career,
Schulhof has performed in
concerts with the Israeli Philharmonic, the Jerusalem
Symphony and other great Orchestras throughout the world
and has released many very popular albums throughout the
years. His most recent being “Moshe
Schulhof Sings the
Classics.” performed with the Romanian State Philharmonic
and shortly he will be releasing a collection of live
performances entitled the "Artistry of
Moshe Schulhof Live." He has
appeared in a concerts with other renowned cantors
including his teacher David Kusevitsky, Shmuel Vigoda,
Shalom Katz, David Bagley and Moshe Stern as well as with
many of his contemporaries such as Benzion Miller, Yakov
Motzen, Yitzhak Meir Helfgot and
otheres.
In 1988, he was
called upon by the American Society for the Advancement of
Cantorial Art to be one of the representatives of the
American Cantorate in a series of spectacular and historic
concerts in the then Soviet Union, Romania and Poland. As a
guest of the respective governments, he brought Jewish
music and hope to those long forsaken communities. Heads of
State, the Diplomatic Corps as well as the public at large
gave him standing ovations wherever he sang. His tour of
Poland was covered by CBS and was shown in the United
States on "Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt". The Society
awarded him their gold medal and gave him the designation
of "Master Cantor". A recording of this tour is available
under the title "Greetings from Russia".Recently, he was
called upon to sing in the Rotunda of the Capitol for
members of the House and Senate of the United States
Moshe
Schulhof is a prolific
composer and also a recognized authority on "Nusach
Hatfilah" as well as a gifted teacher of "Hazzanut", having
many students who are in themselves professional cantors
and has been on the faculty of the Academy of Jewish
Religion in New York as an adjuct proffesor.
Moshe Schulhof sings in seven
languages being equally at home singing secular as well as
religious music to world acclaim.