Cantor Shayna De Lowe

Associate Cantor

Cantor Shayna De Lowe grew up in Springfield, MO and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a degree in Music Education.  She was invested from the Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music in May of 2007 and began working at Rodeph Sholom in July 2007, where she is now the Associate Cantor.

During her time at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, Shayna took a strong interest in world Jewry and the music and culture of Jews around the world.  Shayna spent two of her years of study at the Jerusalem campus of HUC-JIR, during which time she traveled to the Former Soviet Union to serve as student cantor to Jewish communities there.  She first went to Russia where she lead Passover sedarim and then to Belarus where she sang during Yom Kippur and again during Purim.

As a result of her interest in world Jewry and her time spent in Israel, Shayna wrote her masters thesis about the music of the Ethiopian Jews.  She spent time researching the Ethiopian Jewish community while living in Jerusalem and completed her thesis, “I am Black and Beautiful, O Daughters of Jerusalem: The Development of the Music of the Ethiopian Jews”, here in New York.  Shayna hopes to continue to study this community and their music throughout her career and hopes to visit Ethiopia in the near future to experience the history of the Jewish community there first hand.

Shayna recently changed her last name to De Lowe after her marriage in June of 2010 to her partner, Melissa De Lowe. 

Phone Number: (646) 454-3031
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