Biography
Judy Frankel (August 12, 1942 - March 20, 2008) was an American singer of Sephardic songs.
She studied at the Longy School of Music and Harvard University in Cambridge, the Berklee School of Music and Boston University, and with Dorio Dwyer of the Boston Symphony. She has had master classes with Music For Awhile of N.Y., Andrea von Ram of Basil, and Emma Kirkby and the Hilliard Ensemble of London. She has concertized with the Handel and Haydn Choral Society of Boston, UC Berkeley Collegium Musicum and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Ms. Frankel has sung with the Golden Goose Madrigal Quartet, and has been the vocal soloist for the St. Helena Ensemble and the San Francisco Consort.
As vocal soloist for the San Francisco Consort, a chamber ensemble dedicated to researching and performing Medieval and Renaissance music, she travelled to Jerusalem in search of "old" Jewish music. She sang with the Golden Goose Madrigal Quartet, and had been the vocal soloist for the St. Helena Ensemble and the San Francisco Consort.
She sang in 20 languages, specializing in solo performances and lecture-concerts of music of the Jews in Hebrew, Yiddish and, chiefly, Judeo-Spanish.
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