Qabbalat Shabbat with Artist-in-Residence Elana Arian

Gather with us onsite or online for Qabbalat Shabbat. All are welcome to join this service full of prayer, meditation, and music!

Register here to join us on Zoom, or log on via Facebook Live or Temple Israel’s livestream.

Questions? Call 617-566-3960 or email info@tisrael.org.

Elana Arian will be our artist-in-residence for Qabbalat Shabbat. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and prayer leader Elana Arian is one of the leading voices in contemporary Jewish music, and her compositions are sung in spiritual communities, summer camps, and synagogues around the world. She studied conducting and violin, jazz guitar, and songwriting at Yale and has recorded four albums of original music. Arian serves as an instructor at the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College, and she is on the faculty of Hava Nashira (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin), the Wexner Heritage Foundation (Aspen, Colorado), and Shirei Chagiga (London, England).

Arian has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, and in, five separate appearances, at the Obama White House. She has appeared on NPR’s Soundcheck, as well as on PBS’ Finding Your Roots. A sought-after studio musician, Arian also maintains a busy recording schedule, working with such varied artists as Peter Yarrow, the Dirty Projectors, and Catie Curtis. She held the guitar chair on both the smash revival of Sweet Charity starring Tony award-winner Sutton Foster, and on Kristin Chenoweth’s acclaimed For the Girls, and has worked on multiple instruments in the pit orchestras of Broadway shows.