Background
He is a cantor of world renown, schochet and mohel, much like his father, the revered cantor, schochet and mohel, Reb Aaron Daniel Miller.
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Benzion Miller
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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 Doctor Puggell, cantor Avshalom Zfira, Allan Bowers.
Career
Benzion Miller"s singing career began at the age of five. 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 also recorded for the Milken Archive, in Barcelona, Spain with the Barcelona National Symphony Orchestra.
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. Miller has to his cr many recordings of liturgical, Chassidic and Yiddish music
Miller has held positions in Montréal at Sheves Achim Synagogue on Côte-des-Neiges, then in Toronto at Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue on Bathurst Street, in Canada. Since 1981, he has been cantor of Temple Beth El of Borough Park in Brooklyn, a pulpit served by Mordechai Hershman, Berele Chagy and Moshe Koussevitzky.
He continues to serve as cantor of the synagogue, now Congregation Young Israel Beth El after its merger with Young Israel of Boro Park.
Miller made an appearance in A Cantor"s Tale, a documentary about Jackie Mendelson. Miller and Mendelson are shown greeting each other and briefly engaging in conversation. Benzion"s father, cantor, schochet and mohel, Reb Aaron Daniel Miller (1911–2000) was born in the Jewish community of Oświęcim (Oshpitsin) in Poland.
Aaron met Benzion"s mother, who was from the Belz Hasidic dynasty, after the war in a displaced persons camp in Munich, Germany.
Benzion"s son, cantor Shimmy Miller, is his choral director and they often performs duets with each other.
Membership
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.
