"The music here is conservative, accessible, slightly dissonant, and mostly chordal...These are serious, well-made pieces...I cannot imagine this music being better performed...The recording quality is admirably natural."
Fanfare - November/December 2006

"The brief settings [of 'Proverbs'] are striking, the blend of voices often both intriguing and moving...Also very successful is Kol Dodi, a [in which] Traditional Jewish idioms and inflections are handled with a thoroughly modern compositional sophistication...Grant Us Peace [is] intriguing music of deceptive simplicity...There is much that is subtle, persuasive and – quite simply – beautiful about these settings...The choral quartet is admirable throughout...This is a striking collection of choral miniatures."
MusicWeb UK - July 2006

MARK ZUCKERMAN holds a PhD in composition from Princeton University, and was a student of Milton Babbitt, David Epstein, J. K. Randall, and Elie Yarden. He has taught composition, tonal and atonal theory, orchestration, and computer music at Princeton and Columbia Universities, and published numerous scholarly articles and a book on listening to jazz, drawn from a popular jazz survey course he taught at Princeton and Columbia. He has written a bunch of choral music – achieving a growing international reputation – in English, Hebrew and Yiddish, including some 20 arrangements of Yiddish songs for a cappella mixed chorus. His choral music has been performed and recorded by The Gregg Smith Singers, Chicago A Cappella, The Workmen’s Circle Chorus, The New Yiddish Chorale, and The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, among others, and is published by E. C. Schirmer, Transcontinental Music and Carl Fischer. Mark Zuckerman received a 2004 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Mezzo-soprano Hsi-Ling Chang grew up in Taiwan and in Spokane, Washington. She received her Master's degree in piano performance from the University of Houston where she studied with Abbey Simon. In addition to her work as a pianist and singer, she is a Grammy-nominated recording engineer.