Choral Movements in Victorian Britain: From Oxford to West London

Danielle Padley

Danielle Padley is a musicologist, researching the interaction between Jewish music and its wider contexts, with a focus on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. Her work on the Anglo-Jewish liturgical music sung in and published for Victorian synagogues has been heard on BBC Radio 3 ('Symphony of Psalms', Easter Sunday Feature 2018), and was the subject of a video documentary for the Woolf Institute's Living in Harmony project in April 2018. Her first journal article was published in Nineteenth-Century Music Review (CUP) earlier this year, on the subject of Jewish music beyond the Synagogue. Another article, co-written with Professor Susan Wollenberg, University of Oxford, is forthcoming in Ad Parnassum Studies. Danielle is also Musical Director of Kol Echad, Cambridge's Hebrew choir which performs a variety of liturgical, folk and concert repertoire in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. Kol Echad regularly participates in events to promote Jewish-Christian relations through the sharing of musical heritage, including performances at Peterborough Cathedral, Michaelhouse Chapel, Corpus Christi and Churchill Colleges, and at Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue. Danielle has also sung in and conducted the choir at Edgware and District (now Edgware and Hendon) Reform Synagogue since 2000, where she first found the inspiration for her academic work.