About 

Anat Halevy Hochberg is a Boston-based musician, writer, educator, and ritualist with family roots in Israel, Yemen, Hungary, and Poland. Anat grew up playing classical piano and dancing around the living room to the sounds of her parents playing and singing their favorite Israeli tunes. Anat performs as a solo artist and with collaborators.

Anat’s technical training and her professional and communal experience form the vessel through which she is able to share her disarming and empowering joy as a maker of music. As a Jewish woman of color, a first-generation American whose grandparents survived genocide and displacement, and as a person deeply connected to Israel/Palestine, Anat is continually developing her sense of the heartbreak, complexity, responsibility, and courage that it takes to foster healing in a broken world full of beauty. As a music teacher, a leader of song and prayer in Jewish communities, and as a performer, Anat lets everyone in on a secret: that we are all are ready to sing a new song.

Anat has taught and led ritual in many community spaces, including Let My People Sing!, Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, Eden Village Camp, and Linke Fligl. She has recorded and performed with collaborators including Batya Levine, Aly Halpert, Molly Bajgot, Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project, and Joey Weisenberg & The Hadar Ensemble. Anat co-produced Elul: songs for turning and Tishrei: the end is the beginning with Matthew Goldfield. Her first album, How can I keep (from) singing? is available on Bandcamp and streaming platforms. Anat’s recent work is focused on reclaiming the Yemenite melodies of her heritage.