Bring song, prayer, and connection to your community.
Leah partners with communities and organizations to create musical experiences that bring people together, deepen connection, and cultivate hope.
Whether you're looking for musical prayer leadership, a concert, or a customized experience, Leah collaborates with you to create something meaningful for your community.
Offerings
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Cantorial & Spiritual Leadership
Leah's musical leadership invites a community to sing together more deeply and find a more embodied, personal connection to Jewish prayer.
Leah partners with rabbis, clergy, and community leaders to create meaningful, engaging, and musically rich Jewish prayer experiences.
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Concerts
Leah creates concerts that blend Jewish and secular music, original songwriting, folk traditions, and songs from across cultures.
Her concerts are designed to bring people together in song, create connection and belonging, and open space for reflection, joy, and hope.
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Workshops & Residences
Leah creates participatory musical experiences that invite people to sing, create, reflect, improvise, and connect.
She has worked with schools, synagogues, churches and even farms.
Cantorial & Spiritual Leadership
Musical leadership that invites communities to sing together and to find an embodied, personal connection to Jewish prayer.
Leah partners with rabbis, clergy, and community leaders to create meaningful, engaging, and musically rich Jewish prayer experiences.
She can work within an existing service structure to provide musical leadership for select portions of a service, or collaborate with you to build a creative, personalized musical arc for the service.
Leah brings together classical cantorial works and contemporary melodies, traditional nusach, klezmer, Sephardic melodies, her own original music, and folk songs.
She has worked with Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Conservative, and unaffiliated Jewish communities.
Leah singing Kol Nidre (2026, Temple Beth-El, Granger, IN)
Join in harmony, prayer, and song.
“We had the extraordinary joy and privilege of welcoming Leah Shoshanah as our cantorial soloist over the High Holy Days this year. She was both an incredibly spiritual presence and a consummate professional… We were particularly touched by her own compositions, which clearly came directly from her heart. A number of my members described being moved to tears multiple times during the ten days. She is a gift to every community that is fortunate enough to have the opportunity to host her.”
“During our combined Shabbat and Simchat Torah service, Leah Shoshanah brought original melodies for many of the prayers that took us to a deep spiritual place. We sang and danced with the Torah, and I witnessed such contentment, joy, and reverence on people’s faces. Leah Shoshanah supported us beautifully in connecting with the physical Torah and with our stories and our people in such an uplifting way.”
Concerts
Music that unites communities and speaks to the heart.
Leah curates themed concerts of original music, both Jewish and Secular, and folk songs from around the world. These concerts mix group-singing with listening and reflection to both create a healing environment, uplift hope and remind audience members of our collective power, especially during challenging times.
During a concert, Leah also provides opportunities for audience reflection and often improvises songs with audience members.
Sing, feel, celebrate, and experience something moving together.
“Throughout my years as a fan, I have witnessed Leah’s music transform the human soul and bring people together in community, where all may be themselves without judgment. Leah’s music deeply encourages transformation through direct action, helping others discover the power that has always been within themselves to bring real, positive change to the human experience.”
“With respect and love, Leah shares music in many languages and heritages, highlighting our human interconnectedness at a time when the world is in such deep need for compassion, justice, peace and solidarity. ”
“Leah Shoshanah has a true gift. Not only is her voice gorgeous, but she has a way of conveying deep emotions through her vocals and lyrics.... Sometimes words are not adequate enough for full expression. Leah Shoshanah’s music can bring one to that next level. I cannot say enough good things about her.”
“Leah has the gift of songwriting that is compelling and new, yet rooted in, motivated by, an earlier time, when the now nostalgic genre of the folk ballad Americana was in its innocence”
Workshops & Residencies
Participatory experiences that create music-making opportunities for communities.
Leah offers public workshops and also works with organizations to create custom experiences that help their communities create music together.
Here are some examples of past workshops and residencies:
Song Circles (Makom Shalom Mitziut, IL)
Grief Song Circles (Shir Hadash Synagogue, IL)
Spirit Jam : Improvised Vocal Jamming Workshop (Chicago, Germany, Los Angeles)
Songwriting residency with students at Polytechnic School (Pasadena, CA)
Guest Artist and Composer-in-Residence with the Claremont Chorale (Los Angeles)
Build community with a shared musical experience.
“Leah is a masterful teacher and facilitator. For the Spirit Jam, she brought together a great group of people and guided us through two hours of activity: teachings to focus our breathing and games to encourage us to use our voices in different ways – all in preparation for the spirit jam itself, where we improvised sound and rhythm for an extended time. I loved it.”
“Spirit Jam is a great container for making music and authentic connections with others. Leah’s extensive experience as a musician, vocalist, and voice teacher, along with her sense of play and deep respect & appreciation for spiritual life, gave this container a beautiful sense of safety & joyful belonging in which it was easeful, not only to vocalize & improvise with others, but also to learn more about my own voice and musicality, and grow in capacity & depth of sharing music with others. I appreciated Leah’s sensitive and thoughtful leadership.”
Sing more harmony into the world.
Build bridges between people.
Enhance the sacred in every day life.
