8:30 PM Dessert Reception & Havdalah 

8:45 PM Concert
Join us for a Selihot concert with acclaimed musicians Benjamin Capps (Cello), Gersh Chervinsky (Violin), Irina Katz (Piano) and, Ian Pomerantz (Bass Baritone). The concert will feature music by Achron, Bruch, Bloch, Ben Chaim, Lavry, Dobrowen, and others.

10:45 PM Selihot Service

Registration not required.

Ben Capps cellist, enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral principal, collaborator, and creator. Capps currently serves as the lead professor of chamber music at Georgetown University in DC, and is principal cellist with the innovative DC based chamber orchestra Post Classical Ensemble. NYC born, Capps started cello at age 4, first tried composing at 10, and studied conducting at 13. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and Juilliard - where he served as teaching assistant to David Soyer and Bonnie Hampton. He is currently a candidate for a Doctorate of Music Arts at Michigan State University.

Gersh Chervinsky is a professional concert violinist and violin teacher based in Rockville, Maryland. He is the second-award winner of the Cremona Festival and Competition (Italy, 2012). Gersh collaborates with the Washington Bach Consort, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and the Apollo Orchestra as the Associate Concertmaster. Trained at the Moscow Conservatory, Jacobs School of Music, and Peabody Institute of Music, he exhibits the finest traditions of modern and baroque violin playing. Gersh is an enthusiastic educator with extensive teaching experience. Currently, he is a string faculty member at The European Academy of Arts and maintains his private studio in Rockville, MD. 

Irina Kats enjoys a career as a teacher, soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist. Ms. Kats' career began in her native Russia, where she graduated with honors, studying with the great pianist Vasily Pavlov. In 1996, Ms. Kats came to the United States where she taught privately before taking a position at Levine Music in Washington, DC in 1998. Since joining Levine's piano faculty, she has resumed her performance career as a chamber musician and accompanist. She has collablorated with such musicians at the Austrian Slovakian Embassies, The Lyceum in Alexandria, VA, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Ian Pomerantz, praised for his versatility, the “especially brilliant” (Arts Fuse) “luminous bass-baritone” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), baroque musician, scholar, and cantorial soloist  is “the possessor of a remarkable instrument naturally at home in many genres.” A specialist in the Baroque bass repertoire and an expert in the performance of secular, religious, art, and folk music from the Jewish Diaspora, Ian has been a soloist with The Washington Bach Consort. Ian is an emerging leader in the American Jewish community. He holds degrees from Longy School of Music of Bard College and Westminster Choir College, and currently studies cantorial arts at Abraham Geiger Kolleg in Potsdam, Germany.