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Cantor Louise Treitman served as co-clergy at Temple Beth David in Westwood for twenty years and now continues as Cantor Emerita. She served as cantor at Beth El Temple Center in Belmont for three years and has been the High Holy Day Cantor at Beth Hillel Roma, a Progressive congregation in Rome, Italy, since 2018. Cantor Treitman currently teaches rabbinical and cantorial students at Hebrew College in Newton. With degrees from Wellesley College and the New England Conservatory of Music in Performance of Early Music (viola da gamba), she received her investiture as a cantor through Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. A member of the American Conference of Cantors, she was the founding president of the New England Board of Cantors. She was assistant conductor and vocal coach for the Zamir Chorale of Boston for many years and continues to sing with the chorus and serves as chair of its board of directors. She is also co-founder/director of the vocal octet Il Concerto di Salamone Rossi Hebreo, specializing in the Renaissance music of the first Italian Jewish choral composer.