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 Josée Wolff 
Cantor Josée Wolff is Director of Student Placement and Adjunct Faculty at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She has served Reform congregations in the US and Europe for the past 15 years, both as a member of the national staff of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations-as Director of the Department of Synagogue Music-and as congregational cantor at Temple Shalom in Succasunna, NJ, Temple Beth Chaverim in Mahwah, NJ, Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, and the Liberal Jewish Community in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In addition to her work at Hebrew Union College, Cantor Wolff enjoys leading worship and teaching about Jewish music and worship throughout the Liberal Jewish world.
Cantor Wolff has performed at numerous Cantorial concerts in the US, South America, Europe, and Israel and is a regularly featured performer at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has led worship services and presented workshops at regional and national UAHC conventions and retreats, for the World Union of Progressive Judaism, at CAJE, the North American Jewish Choral Festival, and ACC conventions. Cantor Wolff can be heard on Shabbat Anthology and Songs from a Passover Haggadah (Transcontinental Music Publications), and Jubilee Concert (School of Sacred Music 50th Anniversary recording). She is co-author of The Art of Torah Cantillation, and The Art of Cantillation, Volume 2, published by UAHC Press, and music editor of the CCAR Hagadah, The Open Door. Cantor Wolff most recently produced the CD Tov Lehodot, Voices from the Dutch Liberal Community. Cantor Wolff, a native of The Netherlands, holds a degree in flute from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and performed and recorded throughout Europe as a member of various chamber ensembles. In 1991 she received her Masters degree in Sacred Music from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music and was the first woman from the European continent to be invested as a cantor. Education
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