Penny spent three years as Cantorial Soloist at Temple Sinai in Amherst; prior to that, she was Cantorial Soloist at Judea Reform in Durham, NC. While she served Judea Reform, Penny worked as a music teacher at an inner-city elementary school in Durham, N.C. where she was a nominee for Teacher of the Year in 2000.She received her BA in Performance (Voice) from Buffalo State in 1996 where she was a primary soprano soloist for their Chamber Ensemble's Central European Tour in 1995. Penny went on to receive her M.A.T in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Penny is a member of the Guild of Temple Musicians and NATE, for Jewish Educators. Besides the bimah of Temple Beth Zion you can hear Penny around the Western New York community with the klezmir band BUPKES.