Shammash, Elizabeth

The daughter of a mother with roots in Latvian Jewry, and a Baghdad-born father of Babylonian Jewish tradition who emigrated to America, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Shammash earned a bachelor’s degree in Italian studies from Brown University (including a year of study at the University of Bologna in Italy), an artist diploma from Boston University’s Opera Institute, and a master’s degree in music and voice performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Her opera credits include the role of Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo with the Wolf Trap Opera, and her concert appearances have included an all-Bernstein program with the National Symphony Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz. She holds a master of sacred music and certificate of hazzanut from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and currently serves as cantor at Adath Israel in Merion Station, Pennsylvania.


Works

Title
Volume
Duration

13
07:44

19
30:06

4
04:56

4
03:27

Avodat shabbat

Volume 7 | 22 Tracks
7
71:51

9
01:56


9
01:46

Mazl

Volume 13 | 1 Track
13
03:17


Oygn

Volume 13 | 1 Track
13
04:02

13
03:05

9
02:09


17
53:31

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