Cantor Josh Ehrlich is a composer, lyricist, arranger, multi-instrumental accompanist, music director, music educator, and, as of July 2023, a part of the clergy team at Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, NY. He earned a B.A. in linguistics from Yale University (where he music directed the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus) and an M.A. in music composition from Rutgers University. Before receiving his cantorial ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, he served as music director for the bands, choirs, and musical theater productions at Golda Och Academy, Leffell High School, and Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. Josh has written nearly a thousand musical theater orchestrations and a cappella arrangements. He made his Off-Broadway compositional debut in 2017 with The Imbible: Day Drinking—an a cappella musical celebrating brunch as a cathedral in time—which enjoyed an open-ended run at New World Stages for three years. He composed The Choral Torah: Five Books in Four Parts, a song cycle of fifty-four eclectic choral settings of biblical text (one for every parashah) published in May 2021 by The Cantors Assembly. He is also the director and co-founder of The Choral Torah Collective, a chorus of Judaeo-musical educators that performs, leads workshops for community choirs, and promotes musical and biblical literacy.
Joshua Modiano Ehrlich
