Hazzan Jeremy Lipton brings his many years of expertise, enthusiasm and experience as an educator, pulpit artist, conductor and performer to Congregation Agudas Achim as their Cantor, the newest member of their Clergy.  For the past seventeen years Hazzan Lipton has as the Senior Cantor of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, California.  Hazzan Lipton received his Hazzan-Minister Commission from the Cantors Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1991.  Since joining the Cantors Assembly in 1989, he has remained an extremely active member, and he has held numerous leadership positions on both regional and national levels, including Chair of the Cantors Assembly Western Region, National Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee and National Chair of the Education Committee.  As the Coordinator and founding Faculty member (1991) of the highly successful Baal Tefillah Institute (a joint project of the Cantors Assembly and American Jewish University), a comprehensive training program in liturgy for lay people, Hazzan Lipton has trained hundreds of lay and professional leaders in cantillation and nusach hat’
fillah for the entire liturgical year. He has also held academic posts as Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Cantorial School of the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, as well as Adjunct Lecturer in Nusach and Liturgy at the American Jewish University’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

Hazzan Lipton holds both Bachelor's and Master's of Music Degrees in Music/Vocal Performance; other areas of specialty include choral conducting, music history and opera.  Hazzan Lipton’s multi-faceted background encompasses an array of teaching experiences, including those in a number of colleges and universities throughout the southern California area, where he has taught Voice, Choral Conducting and Opera.
Hazzan Lipton is nationally renowned as a private voice teacher and master teacher/coach for a number of Hazzanim across the United States.
He is also in demand as a guest Lecturer on a variety of directed topics in Jewish music; he has recently presented lectures and seminars at the Skirball Cultural Center, University of Judaism and the UCLA School of Music.

As a performer, Hazzan Lipton has concertized frequently, where he has appeared on countless Cantorial concerts, and in opera, oratorio and recital.  During the past seventeen years, he has successfully produced the annual outstanding Cantorial Concert Series at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles. He also serves as the Conductor/Music Director of the Cantors Assembly Western Regional Concert Ensemble.  Hazzan Lipton was a founding member of the Los Angeles Jewish Youth Chorale, and he twice toured as soloist to Zimriah, Israel's international music festival.
His television and film credits include EMI's The Jazz Singer and ABC Circle Films’ War and Remembrance.  His acclaimed Kol Nidre Service Radio Broadcast is still heard annually on Los Angeles radio station KJAZ as a public service to those unable to attend synagogue services during the High Holidays.  Los Angeles radio listeners may also remember his voice as producer/host of "Vocal Point," a weekly classical vocal music program carried by a Los Angeles National Public Radio affiliate.

Hazzan Lipton lives in San Antonio with his wife Kay, and their two wonderful sons, Jonathan and Adam.

E-mail: hazzan.jcl@agudas-achim.org