Sopranos: Betsy Cohen • Lily Dayan Cimadoro • Suzanne Hanser • Janet Kolodner • Joyce Lazarus • Ruthie Liberman • Grace Offen • Debbie Perry • Gayle Pinshaw • Susan Schoenberg • Sara Jane Smith • Joanne Stein • Judy Tracy • Sara Zaidspiner
Tenors: David Carlen • Joan Friedman • Zelda Gamson • Alan Weisner • Alan Weiss • Jim Winston
Altos: Rachel Adler-Golden • Louise Gessel • Elizabeth Lieberman • Alla Mostovaya • Penny Roberts • Ilana Shotkin • Candy Sidner • Audrey Steinberg • Ronnie Sugarman • Faith Szydlo
Basses: David Fillingham • Jules Fried • Larry Kozinn • Alan Shotkin • Alan Teperow • Howard Worona • Michael Zimmer
Koleinu offers the joy of learning, singing and performing Jewish choral music to all interested Boston-area singers. Now in its twenty-first year, this community ensemble shares the rich heritage of Jewish music with diverse audiences through concerts, festivals, and participation in interfaith and multicultural programs
Koleinu has been praised for its expressiveness and repertoire, and for the high musical standards it maintains as a non-audition chorus. The chorus performs a wide range of Jewish choral music, including liturgical, secular, contemporary, and traditional styles.
Koleinu has collaborated with many local cantors and other musicians, appeared at the New England Holocaust Memorial and at the North American Jewish Choral Festival.
Koleinu has performed several times at the North American Jewish Choral Festival in New York, including a 2012 performance of a commissioned work, Sound the Great Shofar, by Osnat Netzer. To mark its 20th anniversary, Koleinu once again commissioned Netzer, and in spring of 2022, accompanied by Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band and Hankus Netsky, gave the world premiere of A Funkl Gleybik (A Spark of Belief).
The chorus has collaborated with many groups, including the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Boston City Singers, Boston Community Chorus, and the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. In addition to its annual winter and spring concerts, the chorus has sung annually at local senior facilities.
They are now the Artists-in-Residence at Temple Shalom in Newton MA.