Staff Bio: Joelle Keene

Joelle Keene (Composer and Arranger) is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the West. She holds a bachelors degree in music composition and choral conducting from Occidental College and a masters in conducting performance from the University of Washington, where she studied under the Israeli-born maestro Abraham Kaplan. Ms. Keene has been the composer-in-residence for Ohr HaTorah congregation and was the winner of the Elinor Remick Warren music composition prize at Occidental College. At Shalhevet, Ms. Keene [...]

Staff Bio: Marty Fox

Marty Fox (Singing Teacher, Musical Director: A Light For Greytowers) holds a degree in voice from Westminster College and a Cantorial Certificate from Hebrew Union College. She also trained in the Orff-Schulwerk method at the Institute for Music Education at the University of St. Thomas. Marty apprenticed for years with the renowned voice teacher, Joseph Klein, whose specialty was mending damaged voices. She taught music for ten years at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica and for the last seven [...]