Bio

Cantor Alex Stein possesses a unique, powerful, lyric tenor voice, and is now firmly established as one of the up and coming “Great Cantors” of the new Cantorial world.

Cantor Alex Stein, an Australian Tenor, was born in Sydney to an Orthodox family steeped in Jewish musical tradition for four generations.

Through his Cantorial performances on the bimah, he has delighted audiences in many concerts in large communities of Australia, Israel, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States. He has appeared in concerts and has shared the bimah with many of the worlds greatest Cantors.

The versatility and repertoire of Cantor Alex Stein is extensive. He sings in six different languages including Hebrew, Classical Yiddish, Ladino, English, Spanish and Italian.

At the early age of seven he sang Chazzanut and Operatic arias at concerts, and by the time he was seventeen years old he was conducting his own High Holiday services at the North Shore Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.  At this time Cantor Alex Stein was appointed youngest Cantor in Australia. This is where his full time Cantorial career began.

Aside from traveling the globe concertizing, or davening as guest Cantor in many parts of the world, Cantor Stein also serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of America and Canada, the JMCA, the oldest Cantorial organization in existence, spanning over a century.

Previous to coming to Toronto, Cantor Stein served at the Beth Tzedec Congregation in Calgary, Alberta, the largest Synagogue in western Canada for 7 years.

Cantor Alex Stein currently serves as senior Cantor of the prestigious Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto, Ontario. With a membership of 2000 families, it serves as one of the largest congregations in North America.