Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller is Professor of Cantorial Arts at the School of Sacred Music, HUC-JIR/New York. She serves as the Director of Cantorial Practica, Masters Thesis advisor, Tefillah advisor and Cantorial coach. Her work involves training cantorial students to bridge the gap between performance and spiritual leadership.

Cantor Schiller is also a nationally-known composer. Her compositions include Life Song Cycle, a series of pieces for Jewish life passage ceremonies; Halleluhu, a multi-rhythmic setting of Psalm 150; V'ye'etayu; and Grace. Cantor Schiller's recordings of musical cassettes include the UAHC's Come Let Us Welcome the Sabbath, and she is a featured cantor in Yamim Noraim, a 1995 CD recording of High Holy Day music.

Cantor Schiller was invested as a cantor and received her masters degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1987. Cantor Schiller serves as cantor alongside her husband, Rabbi Lester Bronstein, at Bet Am Shalom Synagogue, a Reconstructionist congregation in White Plains, NY. They sing together in Beged Kefet, a philanthropic Jewish music ensemble and are the parents of Liba, Yoni, and Avi.