Erik Contzius

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As a composer, Cantor Erik Contzius has written many works for the synagogue. His CD, "Teach My Lips a Blessing: The Music of Erik Contzius," was recorded with the Amor Artis Chamber Choir and Johannes Somary with organist, Christopher Creaghan. Cantor Contzius serves as the Cantor and Music Director at Temple Israel of New Rochelle in New York, USA.

Cantor Erik Contzius, baritone, has performed as a soloist around the world, most recently singing the bass solo for the Mozart Requiem in Israel. He was the soloist for the Darius Milhaud "Service Sacré" with the Westchester Chorale. He has performed Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service (Avodat HaKodesh) in the 2008 Songs of Life festival in Sofia and Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Petah Tikva and Jerusalem, Israel under the baton of Dian Tchobanev as well as with the Menno Singers in Kitchener, Ontario. He has performed with the Westchester Chorale with Maestro Daniel Paget in Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Previous performances include appearing in Münich, Germany in the concert, "Vergessene Musik—The Forgotten Music of the German Jewish Reform Movement." He also has performed at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City two years consecutively in their Jewish Vienna and Germany concerts. Cantor Contzius appeared on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as a soloist in a special concert titled Let Freedom Sing. In 1998, he performed at the International Organ Festival of Göteborg, Sweden, where he led services at the Great Synagogue of Göteborg.