Joan Isaacs Litman, Director, is a native of Los Angeles and has directed choirs in the New York metropolitan area for twenty-eight years. Her choirs have performed at Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center, where they performed Elliot Goldenthal’s Fire Water Paper: Vietnam Oratorio with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Litman’s choir was featured at the Judith Clurman Choral Symposium at the Juilliard School in 2002. Ms. Litman has been a student of choral artistry and conducting under Paul Salamunovich, Lenke Igo and Peter Erdei. She was the winner of the first “Excellence in Teaching” award from Westminster Choir College.

Ms. Litman is a member of the music faculty of the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where she directs the UNIS Mothers’ Chorus and a children’s choir. She is also a member of the summer faculty at the Kodály Institute at Capital University, where she was recently the guest conductor for the Children’s Choral Festival of World Music. Ms. Litman is the author of Song Caravan: Songs of the Middle East. She is a founder and Music Director Emerita of Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey.