Cantor Perry Fine this year is celebrating both his 10th anniversary at Temple Beth Shalom and his 30th year in the cantorate.  He has been singing Jewish music ever since his days as a boy soprano soloist with Hazzan Hillel Lipsicas' High Holy Day choir in his hometown of Baltimore. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cantor Fine has given concerts and lectures around the country on various aspects of Jewish music.  His benefit programs with regional colleagues helped establish the ‘Oheb Beth Yisrael’ Scholarship Fund for JTS cantorial students.  For many years, he toured with ‘Cantors’ Cabaret’, a trio ensemble whose music highlighted Jewish Broadway.  More recently, his lectures on topics such as the ‘Music of Israel’, ‘Jews, Judaism and the American Musical Theatre’, and his ‘Top 10 Countdown of Jewish Prayer’ have helped engage our TBS community during these challenging months of the pandemic.

Cantor Fine is the conductor and co-founder of Voices in Harmony, an interfaith choral ensemble that has served the Essex County community for the past twenty-five years.  This group has performed in numerous concerts and interfaith services throughout the MetroWest region.  Cantor Fine conducts Beth Shalom's youth and adult choirs, and has created the innovative Daled Torah Reading program for sixth graders in the Temple's Hebrew School.   Cantor Fine has been awarded the Conservative Movement's Nathan H. Winter Award for Professional Excellence, and in 2015 was recognized for his work with the SOMA Community Coalition on Race. For the past twenty-five years, Cantor Fine has served on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching Biblical Cantillation to a generation of budding cantorial students. 

His recordings include settings of the Yom Kippur Service for the Milken Archive Series of Jewish Music and his innovative Friday Night Live Service. 

He is married to Miki, together this year celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary!  He is the proud stepfather to Yonatan and Daniel and Saba (grandfather) to Lyla Rose.
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CANTOR SHARON KNOLLER

Cantor Sharon Knoller joined Temple Beth Shalom in July 2002. She is a superb Torah reader and an excellent b'nai mitzvah instructor. In addition to her Torah reading and her teaching, she has graced all of Temple Beth Shalom with her rich alto voice.

Cantor Knoller holds a Certificate of Jewish Music from Gratz College. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a BS in Elementary Education and Communicative Disorders and from Adelphi University with a Masters Degree in Special Education. Prior to joining Temple Beth Shalom, Cantor Knoller served as Cantorial Soloist and music and Hebrew teacher at Congregation B’nai Israel of Somerset Hills.

 In addition to her Temple responsibilities, she also teaches Torah Trope to fifth graders at Golda Och Academy. Cantor Knoller is most proud of her success with hundreds of Bar/Bat Mitzvah students and the development of the Friday night Shabbat L’Khulam service, an inclusive, musical Shabbat service for congregants of ALL abilities.

Most importantly, she is proud to have become the mother of Aliya.

 

 

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