Cantor Emanuel C. Perlman

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You are listening to an original composition of Achein Yeis that was composed in memory of those who perished on September 11, 2001. It was composed one week after the tragedy. Lyrics by Rabbi Dr. Moshe D. Shualy; music by Hazzan Emanuel C. Perlman; conducted and arranged by Elli Jaffe, director of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir. Rabbi/Dr. Moshe D. Shualy Lyrics - Moshe is a teacher of teachers, a scholar of scholars but his humility, modesty and reserved demeanor camouflages his God given Gift from the public... His lyrics permeate to the soul... Elli Jaffe Orchestral Arrangement/Conductor has conducted all of Israel's major orchestras as well as the Royal Philharmonic. He is also music director of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir. Elli's musical Gifts come from God Almighty...

Emanuel C. Perlman, lyric tenor, is in his eleventh year as the Hazzan of Chizuk Amuno Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland.

He has concertized extensively throughout the United States. Larry King said that Perlman is “a combination Caruso and Mel Torme.” He earned a Bachelors Degree in Music and Voice from Rhode Island College and a Masters Degree in Psychiatric Social Work from Yeshiva University. Emanuel also attended the Cantors Institute at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Emanuel has studied voice with the eminent Dr. William Riley in New York City since 1998. He studied for voice and opera for ten years, with the late Kurt Baum known as the “generic tenor” of the Metropolitan Opera.

Hazzan Perlman is a member of The Cantors Perlman 5 consisting of his father and brothers who are all cantors and part of a cantorial singing duo with Cantor Kimberly Komrad. He has an original healing CD called Spiritual Ambrosia on Arabesque Recordings. In 2004, Cantor Perlman sang with his cantorial family for two weeks throughout Israel. Also in 2004, he premiered an original composition Achein Yeish with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at a successful fund raising concert for Meir Panim in Israel.
Perlman sang the tenor solo in Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the Handel Choir at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore as well as the tenor role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Maryland Jewish Chorale Society. He has also sung at Shriver Hall and at the University of Maryland Clinical Pathological Conference at Davidge Hall. In November and December 2006, he lectured on The Aleppo Codex at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. In February 2007, Hazzan Perlman performed throughout Cuba with Cantor Lisa Levine for the Jewish community. Hazzan Perlman is leading a mission to Israel with his cantorial brothers in July 2008, where he and his brothers will perform for the Israel Defense Forces in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary. Hazzan Perlman has just released a new CD entitled "Face To Face" with T. Herbert Dimmock and Jeremy Swerling. Hazzan Perlman is currently serving as the Cantors Assembly representative on the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards.

In addition to his musical and cantorial activities, he has been a psychiatric social worker, Field Instructor, Social Work Supervisor and Team Coordinator at the Long Island Jewish Hillside Hospital in Queens. He and his wife Janice are the proud parents of Steven and Allison, Benjamin and Marc.

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