User:Rabbi avraham sultan

Rabbi/ Cantor Avraham Sultan immigrated with his family to Montreal at five years old from Rabat, Morocco. Three years later he started to sing as a soloist in weddings and concerts around North America and weekly in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal choir under the leadership of Salomon Amzallag. By 12 years old he was the acting Chazzan of the Jewish Center of Montreal.

As a very young adult, he decided to combine his passion with formal education and training in Israel where he was ordained as a Rabbi, Shochet, Mohel, and Sofer by the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem.

Chazzan Sultan is a graduate of the Superior Conservatory of Music in Montreal. A Lyric Tenor, he is one of the few cantors in the world knowledgeable in the Nusach of Sephardic Moroccan Piyuttim, Yerushalmi and Ashkenaze. His teachers have included Cantors Salomon Amzallag, a known singer for the King of Morroco; Aryeh Ovadia; and Avrum Wilkominski, opera singer and Chief Cantor for the Israeli Army.

At the age of 20, Chazzan Sultan served as the Chief Chazzan and assistant Rabbi of the Great Synagogue Tiferet Israel in Caracas, Venezuela. During that period, he also continued his concerts in North America and Europe.

In 1993, he moved to San-Francisco California where he was the Rabbi and Chazzan of the largest Orthodox Ashkenazi Synagogue in the San Francisco and Bay area, Chevra Thilim. Five years later he returned to Montreal where he became the Chief Cantor at the Adath Israel Poale Tzedek Anshei Ozerrof Congregation where he served for the next 10 years. During that time, he participated in many cantorial concerts where he was able to develop different approaches to chazzanut using modern music and popular melodies from Broadway and opera.

Chazzan Sultan was first vice president of The Council of Chazzanim Ashkenaze of Montreal,  and vice president of The Sephardic Association of Chazzanim of Montreal.

Since 2007, Cantor Sultan is the Senior Chazzan of Shaarei Shomayim Congregation in Toronto where he brings warmth to his congregation through singing and inclusion of children. He is responsible for conducting services on Shabbat, High Holidays, and festivals. Cantor Sultan also participates in all religious and life-cycle events, including bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings, brittim, brittot, funerals, and unveilings.

Some other amazing accomplishments of Cantor Sultan:

Currently completing a Masters in Jewish Education at Bellevue University August 2012 - Nominated by the CCA Cantorial Council of America as the regional representative in Ontario from the Belz School of Music at Yeshiva University 2012 - Founder of Sephardic Council of Chazzanim of Toronto 2010 - Chazzan Sultan was nominated as vice president of The Council of Chazzanim of Toronto 1999 - Training Program for Educators and Communal leaders 1998 - Dale Carnegie Training Course – Leadership Training Program 1997-1999 - Ohr Hagolah, Yeshiva Ohr Sameach, Jerusalem-Israel 1987 - Yeshivat Midrash Sepharadi, Jerusalem-Israel, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Talmudic Law He is married to Raquel, and they are the parents of four beautiful boys, Yaacov Aaron, Gabriel Binyamin, Yonatan Shmuel and Ezrah Immanuel