Nancy Diamond Landsman
Nancy Diamond Landsman began her cantorial career in 1979, with her first pulpit being B.J.B.E. (the congregation where she grew up) in Glenview. A graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois in 1980, Nancy received her Bachelor of Science degree, with a major in Social Work and a minor in Music.
Nancy comes from a musical family, where weekly family gatherings always included “show time.” This was the beginning of her musical career. Her love for singing led her to perform in musical theater, opera, choirs, and eventually the Cantorate. Her cantorial studies have been with Hazzan Shlomo Shuster, the late world-renown composer, Max Janowski, and Hazzan Henry Rosenblum (currently the Dean of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York). Nancy's vocal coaches have included: Diane Raigins, Debra Austin, Winifred Brown and Kenneth Smith.
Nancy has served both Conservative and Reform congregations in the Chicago area as well as Rockford, Illinois. Her voice has been heard on the radio and in concerts throughout the United States. Nancy is involved with several Cantorial organizations: Chicago Milwaukee Association of Synagogue Musicians (past Vice President), A.C.C./Guild of Temple Musicians, and Women's Cantors network. Since 1989, Nancy has served at Am Shalom as their Cantor.
