Cantor Mark Morris
cantormarkmorris@cantormarkmorris.com
917-903-8719
Chav' a Lisn
Cantor Mark Morris is available for Bar/Bat Mitzvah tutoring.
He is licensed to officiate at all Life-Cycle Events including in NYC.
Call: 917-903-8719 or email: cantormarkmorris@cantormarkmorris.com
If you are unable to hear the audio clips a sampler CD is available.
As a teacher, the next generation particularly captures Cantor Morris’ enthusiasm. One of his major goals is keeping children involved in the synagogue beyond their Bar/Bat Mizvah. He feels that music is one avenue to successfully meet this challenge. With his musical and theatrical training, he is able to devise programs specifically suited to meet each age group’s needs and interests in order to keep them engaged in the Jewish community.
He has performed in Jewish music concerts at a variety of synagogues including Hollis Hills Jewish Center, where he sang in concert with his teacher and friend, the world renowned Cantor Sol Zim. An accomplished vocal artist, he has the ability to interpret classical Chazzanus, contemporary Jewish Music and perform Broadway and Opera selections.
Cantor Morris has also officiated at many funerals and other more happy simchas such as weddings and baby namings. He is currently writing a new service for Erev Shabbat called "Friday Night Fever."
Cantor Mark Morris has been a Chazzan in the New York area since 2004. He has served a number of Long Island synagogues and led High Holy Day services in New York, Pennsylvania and Atlanta, GA. He presently serves as Cantor at Temple Or Elohim in Long Island, New York. In 2011 Cantor Morris also had the good fortune to be asked to participate in Shabbat Morning services at the Grande Synagogue de Paris.
Cantor Morris has has led services varying in scope from small gatherings on Shabbat to over 2000 assembled congregants on the High Holidays with a choir of over 30 voices. He teaches music and T'filah to children and adults and has trained over 100 B'nai Mitzvahs. In his present position he created a Youth Choir and a Congregant Band for Contemporary Erev Shabbat Musical Services. He has composed a number of original melodies and has lent his voice to many life-cycle events from weddings to funerals.
Cantor Morris received his investiture from the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism. He studied music and theatre at the Boston Conservatory of Music, The American Musical Dramatic Academy in NYC and NYU/Circle in the Square. He received his B.A. in Music from the State University of New York and his M.A in Sacred Music from the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism..
His first singing experience on the stage was at the age of 7 when he was asked to perform with a professional Gilbert & Sullivan company. He continued to sing and act in local productions and in his teens started singing in such nightclubs as the Fountainbleu, Eden Roc and Desert Inn in his hometown of Miami Beach.
After performing in over 100 productions in New York, national tours, stock companies and regional theatres as well as appearances on “Miami Vice,” “Law and Order,” soap operas and as a commercial voiceover artist, Cantor Morris decided to follow the advice he received as a Bar Mitzvah from his childhood Cantor and pursue his true calling in the Cantorate. He devoted his voice and his love of Judaism to the study of the Cantorial Arts and by his second year in the Seminary he was a working Cantor in the New York area.
Cantor Morris’ approach to prayer is to maintain traditional nusach while making it accessible and meaningful for today’s congregations. His davening includes many congregational melodies, both traditional and contemporary, as well as Chazzanut, and he strives to make services inspiring and enjoyable for everyone through his musical choices and presentation.
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