Cantor Tami Cherdack

HARTFORD — “It will be a smokin’ hot klezmer band!” predicts Cantor Tami Cherdack, who has been chosen – along with her klezmer band “Klezmen” — to perform in the annual “Holiday POPS! Spectacular” presented by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in December. Sweetening the music will be renowned klezmer clarinetist Walter Mamlok, who will be joining the Klezmen for these two shows.  Cherdack and Klezmen will perform in two POPS concerts on Saturday, Dec.10, at 3p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford. “The Symphony’s Maestro Carolyn Kuan has chosen to highlight holiday music of many different cultures and religions this year,” says Cherdack. “We will be performing some Jewish music with the orchestra as well as Chanukah music and party music.”  After the show, the party will continue in the hall where the group will continue to play.
A performing and recording artist since the age of 16, Cherdack is the popular cantorial soloist at Congregation Kol Haveriim in Glastonbury.  The winner of numerous vocal competitions, awards, scholarships and fellowships, the Florida native received her Master of Music degree from the internationally renowned New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass.  She was subsequently awarded a full Doctoral Fellowship by the University of Connecticut to teach voice and direct the “Women in the Arts” program.
Cantorial music isn’t the only genre in Cherdack’s repertoire, of course.  She’s also performed and recorded Broadway, pop, big band, opera…and all points in between.  She continues to work as a contemporary recording artist for private studios and composers. In Connecticut she performs regularly with the Klezmen, and she continues to sing throughout greater Boston, Massachusetts, Miami, Florida, Los Angeles, CA and Connecticut.