Daniel Henkin

“During the course of a week, my students encounter nusach in the middle ages, grapple with the complexities of modern day Israel, and celebrate the rhythms of the Jewish week. My medium is music. It is how I best express myself and move others to form deep, enduring connections with their heritage and community. While there is never quite enough time to transmit everything, time must be given to create unforgettable learning moments. Though those unforgettable moments may seem spontaneous, they often require meticulous attention to detail and demand more of people than they expect of themselves.”

Daniel Henkin has served as Director of Music at The Ramaz School in New York City for the past nine years. In this role, he directs the Lower School, Upper School, and Chamber choirs; teaches 11^th Grade Music History and 12^th Grade Music Theory; and is the Director of Kol Ram, the Ramaz/KJ community choir, an adult choir open to members of the Ramaz/Kehilath Jeshurun community.

Mr. Henkin serves as Music Director at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack (since 2005) and directs choirs at a number of other Jewish institutions, including Camp Nesher (since 1997) and Queens College Hillel (since 1996). Under Mr. Henkin’s direction, the Tizmoret choir of Queens has been three-time Kol Ha’olam, National Collegiate Jewish A Cappella Competition champions and have performed at Lincoln Center and the White House.

From 1997-2007, Mr. Henkin served as Choir Director and Music Instructor at Yeshivah of Flatbush and as the Coordinator of Music Curriculum and Director of Middle School and Upper School choirs at Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex & Union in West Orange, NJ. He was the Assistant Principal and Director of Music Programs at Chizuk Amuno Congregation’s Rosenbloom Religious School in Baltimore, MD from 1993-1996 and the Music Specialist at Camp Morasha in Brooklyn, NY from 1992-1996.

Mr. Henkin has presented at numerous Jewish educational conferences on contemporary a cappella music as well as choral repertory and arranging. He has recorded twenty-two albums of Jewish sacred music with numerous choirs and groups.

Mr. Henkin graduated summa cum laude and Pi Beta Kappa from Columbia College with a B.A. in Music and a B.A. in Philosophy (1991) and from the Indiana University School of Music with an M.M. in Composition (1994).