Matt Austerklein

1 week ago | mattausterklein.substack.com | Matt Austerklein |Ted Gioia

As a senior in college, I faced a difficult choice: was it to be music or Judaism? I was offered, on the one hand, the opportunity to attend cantorial school in New York, and on the other, the chance to teach English in Austria with the promise of studying classical voice. This weighty decision represented two different visions of my long-term future. As both a serious musician and a serious Jew, it was not an easy d.