Cantor Andrew Bernard received his bachelor of music and bachelor of arts degrees from Oberlin College, majoring in piano performance and pre-med. He went on to earn both the masters and doctorate in choral conducting from the University of Washington, where he was a student of Abraham Kaplan.

Cantor Bernard was invested as a cantor and received the master of sacred music degree in the spring of 1998. His masters project, a basic music theory textbook to teach the Jewish prayer modes, has been integrated into the cantorial training at the HUC–JIR School of Sacred Music in New York.

He serves on the Union for Reform Judaism’s Joint Commission on Worship, Music and Religious Living, and is one of the authors of a Jewish music curriculum that was
published by the American Conference of Cantors.