Cantor Benzion Miller (Hebrew: בֶּן צִיּוֹן מילר, Yiddish: בֶּן־צִיּוֹן מי(ל)לעֶר) was born in a DP Camp in Fernwald, Germany in December 1947. He is a Cantor of world renown, Schochet and Mohel, much like his father, the revered Cantor, Schochet & Mohel, Reb Aaron Daniel Miller.
Benzion Miller's singing career began at the age of 5. Cantor Miller studied Music Theory and Solfege under Cantor Samuel B. Taube of Montreal. He studied voice production at the Champagne School for Music in Montreal and with Dr. Puggell, Cantor Avshalom Zfira, Allan Bowers. Acclaimed as one of the foremost interpreters of Liturgical Music, Benzion Miller is equally at home in Operatic Repertoire and Jewish and Chassidic Folk Music. He has appeared with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Rishon L'Tzion Symphony, the Haifa Symphony and members of the London Symphony. He recently recorded, for the Milken Archive, in Barcelona, Spain with the Barcelona National Symphony Orchestra. Benzion Miller was privileged to be among the first group of Cantors to visit and sing in the Eastern European countries. He has appeared before capacity audiences in Romania, Russia, Poland and Hungary, where he sang with the Budapest State Opera Orchestra. Benzion has to his credit many recordings of liturgical, Chassidic and Yiddish music.
He has held positions in Montréal at "Sheves Achim" Synagogue on Côte-des-Neiges, then in Toronto at "Shaarei Tefillah" Synagogue on Bathurst Street, in Canada.
Since 1981, he has been cantor of Congregation (formerly Temple) Beth El (now Young Israel Beth-El) of Boro Park in Brooklyn, a pulpit served by Mordechai Hershman, Berele Chagy, and Moshe Koussevitzky.
R. Cantor Chaim Shimon (Shimmy) Miller, his son, is his choral director and often performs duets with Benzion.[1][2]
Benzion's father, Cantor, Schochet & Mohel, Reb Aaron Daniel Miller (1911–2000) was born in the Jewish community of Oshpetsin.