Our Choir
Mosaic Voices is a professional a cappella choir, dedicated to performing, preserving and commissioning new music from the Jewish tradition. It is the resident choir of one of Europe’s most beautiful synagogues, the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, London. The choir, founded in 2012 by its musical director, Michael Etherton, had its recording of Kol Nidrei broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune programme. Its first album, The Blue Book, was released in December 2018.
“A beautiful sound”
Katie Derham, BBC Radio 3
Below are three Mosaic Voices performances: Max Janowski’s Avinu Malkeinu, arranged by Benjamin Till; Mechalkeil by Benjamin Till; and Adon Olam ‘Over the Rainbow’, using Harold Arlen’s melody in an arrangement by Benjamin Till.
The earliest of the four recordings is a musical setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd) composed and sung by Benjamin Till. This moving piece documents lockdown for Britain’s Jewish community, and was created following a call-out for photos of people’s experience of lockdown across the country.