Rabbi Daniel Katz is a cantor and musicologist from Duisberg, Germany.
An expert on Jewish liturgical music, he will be visiting Melbourne to attend an international musicological conference, and will be giving lectures and leading selected services.
For details of Rabbi Katz's Melbourne appearances, contact Kehilat Nitzan
Education: Tifereth Yisrael Rabbinical Yeshiva Rabbi, 1997
Jewish Theological Seminary of America Cantor, M.S.M., 1994
Duke University Ph.D., 1989; M.A., 1984 (musicology)
Haverford College B.A., 1978 (music and Latin)
Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Earliest Sources for the Libellus cantus mensurabilis secundum Johannem de Muris “ (music theory treatise, ca. 1340)
M.S.M. Thesis: „A Performing Edition of Isaac Offenbach's Akdamut. ..“ (performance practice of early nineteenth-century synagogue music)
Selected Positions:
Rabbi, Jewish Community of Duisburg, Mülheim, and Oberhausen (Germany), since 2002
Rabbi, Jewish Community of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2000-2002
Rabbi in Germany (first in Kiel; later freelance for several communities), 1997-1999
Selected Honors and Awards:
Fulbright Grant for program “Germany and Jewish Studies Today,“ 1996
Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers “Analyzing Early Music (1300-1600),“ Brandeis University, 1995
Arthur Einstein Memorial Prize in music composition, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1992 and 1994
Fulbright Grant for research in Italy, 1985-1986
Conference Papers:
American Musicological Society (Seattle, Nov. 2004)
International Musicological Society Symposium (Melbourne, July, 2004)
European Association of Biblical Studies (Copenhagen, 2003)
American Academy of Religion (Toronto, 2002)
American Academy of Religion (Denver, 2001)
European Association for Biblical Studies (Utrecht, 2000)
Third International Jewish Music Conference (London, 2000)
Midwest Jewish Studies Association (East Lansing, Michigan, 2000)
“The Past in The Present” (International Musicological Society Symposium, Budapest, 2000)
“Ashkenaz: Theory and Nation” (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1998)
European Association of Jewish Studies (Toledo, 1998)
American Musicological Society (Boston, 1998)
“Voice of Ashkenaz” (The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, 1997)
American Musicological Society (New York, 1995)
Academic Lectures:
Bucknell Universiy (Pennsylvania, 2002)
Paideia (Jewish Studies Program, Stockholm, 2002)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel, Germany, 2002 and 1998)
University of Leeds (England, 2001)
Cambridge University (2001)
Conservatory of Music, Frankfurt (adjunct lecturer, 1999)
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfu rt (adjunct lecturer, 1999)
Princeton University (1999)
University of Illinois at Urbana (1999)
Brandeis University (1997)
Musicological Publications
“When Kol nidrei is not Kol nidrei: Synagogue Reform in Aarhus, Denmark (1825),” Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux , forthcoming
“The ‘Eighth Way' in the Ma'ase Efod of Profiat Duran (1403): A Catalonian Grammarian's Remarks on Biblical Cantillation,” The Past in the Present. Papers Read at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium and the 10 th Meeting of the CANTUS PLANUS, Budapest & Visegrád, 200 0, 2 vols. (Budapest: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 61-85.
“Seeking the Parameters of Ashkenazi Liturgical Improvisation,” Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra 21/1 (2000), pp.17-47.
“Biblische Kantillation und Musik der Synagoge: ein Rückblick auf die ältesten Quellen,” Musiktheorie 15 (2000), pp.57-78
“Il cantore ashkenazita nel suo ambiente rituale,” Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra , 20/1 (1999), pp.27-46
“From Mount Sinai to the Year 6000: A Study of the Interaction of Oral Tradition and Written Sources in the Transmission of an Ashkenazi Liturgical Chant ( Akdamut ),” Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra , 20/1 (1999), pp.175-206 (corrected version: supplement to 20/2 (2000)
Review of Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers, ed. Hans Nathan (Madison: A-R Editions, 1994), Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, vol. 4, Notes , June 1998, pp. 991-993
“A Prolegomenon to the Study of the Performance Practice of Synagogue Music Involving M'shor'rim, ” The Journal of Synagogue Music , vol. 24, no. 2 (Dec. 1995), pp. 35-79
Review of Israel Adler, Hebrew Notated Manuscript Sources up to circa 1840 , 2 vols. (München: G. Henle, 1989), Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, B IX 1 , Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 18 (1993), pp. 66-69
