In addition to having held several prestigious cantorial posts in Europe and the United States, Helfgot has performed in concerts all over the world. In December 2006, under the auspices of Cantors World, he performed a solo concert at the
Metropolitan Opera House with the
New York Philharmonic directed by Mordechai Sobol. In January 2007, he sang in
Madison Square Garden to an audience of 30,000 at a
Siyum HaShas. In December 2007, he performed at
Lincoln Center in
Avery Fisher Hall, again accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, in a tribute to Cantor
Moshe Koussevitzky. He shared a stage with Cantor
Shimon Farkas of Central Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, Cantor Yehuda Niassof, and rock star
Jimmy Barnes in August 2009. In December 2010, he performed at the
White House during a
Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony. He has also performed in distinguished venues, synagogues and concert halls in almost every European city and the world over, including the
Warsaw Opera House in Poland, Henry Crown Hall in Jerusalem and
Carnegie Hall in New York City. His solo albums, recorded with a renowned authority on cantorial music, Dr. Mordechai Sobol, led to popular success. Despite the bombast of the musical arrangements, the vocal quality harks back to the golden age of chazzanut, where legendary Jewish cantors like
Yossele Rosenblatt and Moshe Koussevitsky produced albums that featured both devotional prayers and traditional Jewish folk songs. In 2012, Helfgot broke new ground with the unprecedented collaboration between a cantor and a world-class classical musician. Renowned violinist
Itzhak Perlman spearheaded a project with Sony to record sophisticated new arrangements of famous cantorial pieces, reworked to include a dual focus on the voice and violin. The music director for this project was
Hankus Netsky, and the conductor was Australian-born Russell Ger. A promotional tour with this assembled team saw sold-out performances at the
Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Boston's
Symphony Hall, Long Island's
Tilles Performing Arts Center, Toronto's
Roy Thomson Hall, and a crowd of 15,000 at the
Hollywood Bowl. A
Public Broadcasting Service special titled "Rejoice" was also filmed in New York City in late 2013, and further performances took place at the
Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton and the
Ravinia Festival. Helfgot is chief cantor of the
Park East Synagogue in New York City. He earns approximately $250,000 a year, making him the highest paid cantor in the world. ==Discography==