Regina Yantian began her training as an organist and choir director at the age of ten. She studied Jewish Studies and Comparative Musicology in Heidelberg, Jerusalem and Berlin, dealing with various forms of Jewish music in depth in the course of her studies. She completed her master’s degree with a thesis on Israeli popular music.
Since 1998 she has been working as organist and choir director at Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue in Berlin. In this function she conducts the professional choir of the synagogue, which accompanies all religious services.
In addition, Regina Yantian is also an experienced director of lay choirs. From 2004 to 2011 she conducted the Schalom Choir Berlin, founded by Estrongo Nachama, and from 2013 – 2019 the Youth Choir of the Pestalozzistraße Synagogue.
Since 2011 she has been leading the “Re’utchor”, with which she works out musical delicacies of Israeli choral music and the Jewish liturgy and performs them in front of a wide variety of audiences.
In 2002 she founded the professional Synagogal Ensemble Berlin, with which she frequently performs in Germany and abroad. Recently, for instance, she conducted the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Belgrade, the Czernowitz Symphony Orchestra and the Neue Rheinische Chamber Orchestra Cologne in joint concerts with the Berliner Synagogal Ensemble.
Regina Yantian played the organ symphony by Saens-Sans in the “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach” concert hall in Frankfurt/Oder and accompanies cantor Isaac Sheffer in his solo concerts. From 2004-2011 she directed the “Shalom Choir Berlin”, from 2011-2020 the “Re’utchor Berlin”, from 2013-2020 the Youth Choir of the Pestalozzistraße Synagogue.
Since 2021 she leads the “Refugiochor Berlin” and the “Young SEB”. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Together with Cantor Isaac Sheffer and the Synagogal Ensemble Berlin she released four CDs with Jewish liturgical music from different periods
Regina has been musical director of the Louis Lewandowski Festival since its inception in 2011.
Choirs from all over the world are invited to each festival to perform choral music on various themes.
Contact: reginayantian@gmail.com
Regina Yantian
