Cantor Benzion Miller was born in a DP Camp in Fernwald, Germany in December 1947. He is a Cantor of world renown, Schochet and Mohel, much like his father, the revered Cantor, Schochet & Mohel, Reb Aaron Daniel Miller.

Benzion Miller's singing career began at the age of 5. Cantor Miller studied Music Theory and Solfege under Cantor Samuel B. Taube of Montreal. He studied voice production at the Champagne School for Music in Montreal and with Dr. Puggell, Cantor Avshalom Zfira, Allan Bowers. Acclaimed as one of the foremost interpreters of Liturgical Music, Benzion Miller is equally at home in Operatic Repertoire and Jewish and Chassidic Folk Music. He has appeared with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Rishon L'Tzion Symphony, the Haifa Symphony and members of the London Symphony. He recently recorded, for the Milken Archive, in Barcelona, Spain with the Barcelona National Symphony Orchestra. Benzion Miller was privileged to be among the first group of Cantors to visit and sing in the Eastern European countries. He has appeared before capacity audiences in Romania, Russia, Poland and Hungary, where he sang with the Budapest State Opera Orchestra. Benzion has to his credit many recordings of liturgical, Chassidic and Yiddish music.

He has held positions in Montréal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 at "Sheves Achim" Synagogue on Côte-des-Neiges

Côte-des-Neiges

Côte-des-Neiges is a working class neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, situated at the geographic center of the Island of Montreal on the western slope of Mount Royal. The neighbourhood is part of the borough Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce...

, then in Toronto

Toronto

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 at "Shaarei Tefillah

Shaarei Tefillah

Congregation Shaarei Tefillah is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located at 35 Morseland Avenue in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts. In 2003, the synagogue had a membership of 140 families, and in 2008 that number had risen to 200 families...

" Synagogue on Bathurst Street

Bathurst Street (Toronto)

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, in Canada.

Since 1981, he has been cantor of Congregation (formerly Temple) Beth El (now Young Israel Beth-El) of Boro Park in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, a pulpit served by Mordechai Hershman

Mordechai Hershman

Mordecai Hershman was a Russian-Jewish cantor and singer.-Biography:Mordechai Hershman was born in Chernigov in the Ukraine. Although as a child he showed musical talent at an early age, participating in several synagogue choirs, when his father died when he was six years old his adoptive family...

, Berele Chagy, and Moshe Koussevitzky

Moshe Koussevitzky

Moshe Koussevitzky was a cantor and vocalist. A relative of noted conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, he made many recordings in Poland and the United States....

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R. Cantor Chaim Shimon (Shimmy) Miller, his son, is his choral director and often performs duets with Benzion.

Aaron Miller

Benzion's father, Cantor, Schochet & Mohel

Mohel

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, Reb

Reb

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 Aaron Daniel Miller (1911–2000) was born in the Jewish community of Oshpetsin

Oswiecim

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Discography

1. "Cantor Benzion Miller Sings Cantorial Concert Masterpieces" - The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, Naxos
   Naxos Records
   Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...
   
    (May 18, 2004; International: January 2005)
2. "HASC - Jerusalem The Experience" (2004)
3. "High Holidays" (1997)
4. "Shabbat"(1995)
5. "I Believe"
6. "The Soul Is Yours"
7. "The Two In Harmony"

Partly recorded in the Naxos:

External links

• http://www.thecantors.com/miller.htm
• Photo archive for the "Cantor Benzion Miller Sings Cantorial Concert Masterpieces (Release: May 18, 2004)"

About Aaron Miller:

• http://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/artists.taf?artistid=87