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Max Silverstone, baritone, is a born and bred native New Yorker who has always had a passion for Judaism and music. He grew up an active member of Park Avenue Synagogue, where he was teaching his Hebrew school classmates the melodies he heard in services as early as second grade. Max also took guitar and drum lessons growing up, and taught himself how to play bass guitar and ukulele. It was not until college at Brandeis University that Max became a singer! He joined the Brandeis Chorus, and Manginah, Brandeis’s co-ed Jewish a cappella group. Max has also been a regular attendee of Songleader Boot Camp in St. Louis. These are some of the experiences that led him to fall in love with Jewish music and come to study at JTS. Max is very excited to share music this weekend that reflects the content he has learned in cantorial school. This year, Max serves as the student cantor at the Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has previously served as cantorial intern at Congregation Beth El in Fairfield, Connecticut, and as chaplain intern at Project Ore, a senior center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. During the summers, you can find Max at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, teaching “Jewkulele,” leading musical Tefillah (prayer), and running Shira (singing). In his spare time, you can catch Max rock-climbing, photographing trains, or CitiBiking down Broadway.