Est. in 2002, we celebrate 20 years of making music together!
Cantigas Women's Choir is dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone, as members of our choir, as concert musicians, and as attendees at our events. We believe that music has the power to bring people together, and we strive to ensure that our choir is accessible and accommodating to all members of our community.
A Concert to Benefit Our Local Refugee Communities
Please join us on September 4, 2024, for a fundraising concert for local refugee support featuring Wassim Ibrahim and Ethan Smith.
The concert will be at 7:30 pm at All Saints Episcopal Church, 701 Washington St. Hoboken. Suggested donation is $20 per ticket.
Proceeds will be distributed to local refugee communities with whom we partner.
Wassim Ibrahim is a composer, ‘oud player and now professor of Ethnomusicology at Krakow Conservatory. His compositions have been performed throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East. He was named the Cultural Ambassador for the City of Krakow in 2019. He performs regularly– most recently in the Baltics. Wassim directs five world music ensembles.
Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Ethan Smith is from Cape Town, South Africa. As a student of jazz and improvised music, Smith cites his keen interest in the traditional music of the world, particularly of Africa as well as countries of the far and middle east as a main influence to his sound and compositions. Smith has traveled extensively over the last few years having visited and performed in no less than seventeen countries. He now resides in Krakow.
Rabbi Rob Scheinberg will give the opening remarks for this wonderful musical experience.
Cantigas Women's Choir is a non-profit organization, made up of a diverse and inclusive group of women, based in Hudson County, NJ. As part of our mission, through the power of our voices, we work to connect audiences of all backgrounds by performing a broad spectrum of music, both ancient and contemporary, from singing traditions around the world. We come together to grow musically, connect with each other personally, and honor the people whose music we sing.
In addition to our community outreach, Cantigas has performed for the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association (in 2010) and works from composers including Leonardo San Juan, Paul Hennessee, Lillian Redl, and Wassim Ibrahim, whose "Damascus Breeze" premiered at Cantigas's spring 2015 concert. In the summer of 2016, a group of Cantigas traveled to Buenos Aires to sing with sister choir Coral Femenino de Caballito and Coral San Cirano. In the summer of 2023, Cantigas traveled to Ireland to sing in conjunction with Diva Voces Female Choir to perform the premiere of Sean Doherty's original composition "Eternal Rebel" based on a poem by Eva Gore-Booth.