She is newly moved to the Midwest after twenty years in Los Angeles, where she most recently served as a cantorial soloist leading B’nai Mitzvah and Shabbat services at Temple Israel of Hollywood.

Before that, she was a longtime soprano soloist, Shabbat morning quartet member, and High Holy Day choir member at LA’s Sinai Temple (during the pulpit of Rabbi David Wolpe) as well as the soprano soloist at Temple Ramat Zion in Northridge. She has had the joy of working and singing with such Jewish music luminaries as Music Director Aryell Cohen, Cantor Marcus Feldman, Cantor Arianne Brown, musician/composer Craig Taubman and the Craig Taubman Band, Hazzan Paul Dorman, Cantor Jenni Asher, and Cantorial Soloist Shelly Fox, who mentored her at TIOH.

Her work as a musician spans cultures, religions, and genres. She has performed as a regular soloist and professional choir member at Hollywood United Methodist Church, LA’s St. James’ in-the-City Episcopal Church, and First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beverly Hills; as a professional singer with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Choral Artists; in the studio for theater and film composers including Andrea Morricone; and at club venues around LA with members of the “Groband” after the release of her eponymous classical crossover EP. She is a music member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Jennifer is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied classical vocal performance. She made her concert debut at Jordan Hall as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, to a rave Boston Globe review. Prior to that, she attended The University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the renown rock and pop a cappella group Off the Beat.

Jennifer started piano at the age of six and at eight began formal training with the late pianist Eve Dillingham at the Westport School of Music. But it was while preparing for her bat mitzvah with Cantor Richard B. Silverman z’l at Temple Israel in Westport, Connecticut, that she realized her love of singing and Jewish music. She began soloing for the High Holy Days not long after. Her vocal teachers include Suzanne DuPlantis, Carole Haber, Irene Gubrud, Cantor Nathan Lam, and Douglas Susu-Mago, with whom she has studied for the past two decades.

 Jennifer is also the award-wining author of two journalistic nonfiction books, Unlatched (HarperCollins) and A Call to Farms (W.W. Norton), both of which include chapters on Jewish cultural history. She tries to walk and bike everywhere in her new hometown, where she lives with her screenwriter/musician husband and their two vivacious daughters.