The Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale was founded in 1997 by Cantor Ira Bigeleisen and Rand Harris to represent America’s second-largest Jewish community in Jerusalem at the eighteenth World Congress of Choirs (Zimriya) in 1998. The group has performed Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt and has presented Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony in U.C.L.A.’s Royce Hall and in Germany with the Nürnberger Symphoniker (Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra) and other choral groups. The choir is directed by Nick Strimple.