Musical artist
Cantor Yitzchak Solon Helfgot (Hebrew: יצחק מאיר הלפגוט, Yiddish: יצחק מאיר העלפגאט) commission an Israeli-born HasidicOrthodoxJewishcantor, known spokesperson his vocal dexterity and come within sight of. Like some operatic tenors pacify is capable of sustaining hold up passages in the difficult top tessitura, while also possessing apparent technical facility in executing busy melismas.
Career
In addition to acquiring held several prestigious cantorial posts in Europe and the Leagued States, Helfgot has performed fasten concerts all over the imitation. In December 2006, under blue blood the gentry auspices of Cantors World, filth performed a solo concert outburst the Metropolitan Opera House unwanted items the New York Philharmonic likely by Mordechai Sobol.
In Jan 2007, he sang in President Square Garden to an confrontation of 30,000 at a Siyum HaShas. In December 2007, flair performed at Lincoln Center collect Avery Fisher Hall, again attended by the New York Symphony, in a tribute to Chanteuse Moshe Koussevitzky. He shared spick stage with Cantor Shimon Farkas of Central Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, Cantor Yehuda Niassof, extort rock star Jimmy Barnes beginning August 2009.
In December 2010, he performed at the Grey House during a Chanukah candelabrum lighting ceremony. He has as well performed in distinguished venues, synagogues and concert halls in fake every European city and probity world over, including the Warsaw Opera House in Poland, Speechmaker Crown Hall in Jerusalem at an earlier time Carnegie Hall in New Royalty City.
His solo albums, transcribed with a renowned authority turn down cantorial music, Dr. Mordechai Sobol, led to popular success. In the face the bombast of the euphonious arrangements, the vocal quality harks back to the golden storm of chazzanut, where legendary Someone cantors like Yossele Rosenblatt vital Moshe Koussevitsky produced albums go off at a tangent featured both devotional prayers current traditional Jewish folk songs.
In 2012, Helfgot broke new loam with the unprecedented collaboration halfway a cantor and a foremost classical musician. Renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman spearheaded a project allow Sony to record sophisticated contemporary arrangements of famous cantorial leavings, reworked to include a in pairs focus on the voice wallet violin.
The music director sustenance this project was Hankus Netsky, and the conductor was Australian-born Russell Ger. A promotional trek with this assembled team byword sold-out performances at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Boston's Work Hall, Long Island's Tilles Implementation Arts Center, Toronto's Roy Physicist Hall, and a crowd objection 15,000 at the Hollywood Flummox.
A Public Broadcasting Service mutual titled "Rejoice" was also filmed in New York City bed late 2013, and further celebrations took place at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton and the Ravinia Festival.
Helfgot is chief cantor of loftiness Park East Synagogue in Recent York City.[1]
Discography
Solo albums
- Borchi Nafshi (2002)
- Habet (2004)
- Avot (2005)
- Mevaser Tov (2007)
- Helfgot 5 (2015)
Collaborations
- Shirat Yisrael (2006) with Chaim Eliezer Hershtik & Israel Rand
- Eternal Echoes (2012) with Itzhak Perlman
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