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Bio for Andrew Bernard
Cantor, Temple Beth El, Charlotte, NC
Andrew Bernard received bachelor of music and bachelor of arts degrees from Oberlin College,
majoring in piano performance and pre-med. He went on to earn both the masters and doctorate in
choral conducting from the University of Washington, where he was a student of Abraham Kaplan. His
graduate research on Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony was
named co-winner of the Julius Herford Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in choral music in 1990 by
the American Choral Directors Association.
Andrew has served as cantor at Temple Beth El in Charlotte, NC since 1999, and is in his fifth
year as chaplain specialist at the Levine Children’s Hospital. He was invested as a cantor in 1998 and
did his CPE residency at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati before moving to Charlotte. He is currently a
vice-chair of the URJ’s Joint Commission on Worship, Music and Religious Living. Andrew is the
author of The Sound of Sacred Time, a basic music theory textbook to teach the Jewish prayer modes
and is a contributor to Divrei Shir, the Jewish music curriculum. He is also composer and arranger of a
number of liturgical compositions including Duet for Elul published by Synagogue 2000.
