Show Notes
Alex Bonoff is studying to become a cantor, and is currently a cantorial soloist at Temple Israel of Minneapolis, a congregation that has had only two cantors in its 147 year history.
We’ll to talk to Alex about that, but I also want to discuss his history as a composer, orchestrator, producer, audio engineer, copyist, music director and supervisor, working on projects in film, television and theatre—and, he says, “anything else that makes sound.”
Alex has worked on shows including New York, New York (Broadway), Classic Stage Company’s Assassins (Off-Broadway Show, Broadway Concert), Theatre for a New Audiences (Off-Broadway, in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company) Timon of Athens, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre’s The Penelopiad, Chicago’s Paramount Theatre’s world premiere of August Rush, and Goodspeed Opera House’s world premiere of The 12.
He also served as a guest artist at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, as a music director and composer.
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