Cantor

Cantor Rosalie Will

Cantor Rosalie Will is the first cantor in the long history of the renowned Chicago Sinai Congregation. She brings more than 25 years of experience in training songleaders, leading worship, and creating joyful singing communities. Following 16 years with Temple Emanuel in Kensington, MD, she consulted with congregations on issues of worship, music, and synagogue transition, traveled extensively in congregational residencies, and coached clergy in the field.

Cantor Will is founder, former Executive Director, and current Program Director of Sing Unto God, a non-profit dedicated to elevating the practice and impact of communal singing, and the producing organization for Hava Nashira, the seminal songleader conference founded by Debbie Friedman z”l and Cantor Jeff Kepper in 1992. She has produced or co-produced numerous events which lead the cutting edge of worship and music thinking, including four Biennials for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and continues to support the URJ on issues of worship and music. Cantor Will is the author of a narrative trade book with Transcontinental Music Publishing entitled Songleading: A Work of Art.

Rosalie was ordained from the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music of HUC-JIR in New York, and served as Vice-President for Member Relations of the American Conference of Cantors (ACC). She is a product of URJ Camps and NFTY, and received her undergraduate degree in Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Chicago with her husband, David, and is the proud mother Tahlia and Arielle.