2022 Rotary Youth Talks Gala Event featuring Songs from the Mizrahi Tradition by Rabbi Cantor George Mordecai [Hybrid]

Please join the Rotary Club of Sydney for our 2022 Rotary Youth Talks Gala Event Brought to you by the Rotary Club of Sydney Youth Committee. The event will take place at Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, Sydney during the Rotary Tuesday luncheon at 12:30 PM.

Songs from the Mizrahi Tradition – a Celebration of History and Music Luncheon by Rabbi Cantor George Mordecai.

RCS Youth Committee Chair Dr. Sonu M. M. Bhaskar PHF will host this special meeting that will include a live music performance by Rabbi Cantor George Mordecai.

       About Rabbi Cantor George Mordecai

Rabbi Cantor George Mordecai weaves his rich cultural heritage into his work as a performer and cantor. Born in Sydney, Australia to Iraqi Jews from India and Singapore, he was immersed in the musical and liturgical traditions of his family. George received his Cantorial investiture from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. George has performed Sephardic and Judeo-Iraqi liturgical repertoire in concert halls and synagogues around the world and was also a member of the Renaissance Players, a Sydney-based renowned early music ensemble. He has also performed in interfaith settings with Middle Eastern and Indian musicians. In 2007 he met Patrick Quigley, artistic director of the world-renowned choral ensemble Seraphic Fire, and together they developed a performance project, Shalom/Pax, which drew from the rich motivic and melismatic textures of the Gregorian and Iraqi Jewish musical traditions. George has devoted his life to pursuing a vision of devotional music that speaks to the sacred interconnectedness of all humanity and continues to work on projects that support this vision. He is now a rabbi and Cantor at Emanuel Synagogue in Woollahra.