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Anita Schubert grew up in Queens and Lynbrook, L.I. She received her bachelors degree in education at the University of Rochester and a masters degree at the University of Maryland. Anita's interest in leading services developed in the late '80's, as women were able to enter that arena for the first time. After a few years of developing her skills, as well as teaching music and training B'nei mitzvah students for several local Hebrew schools, she felt that the cantorate was indeed the career she was meant to pursue.

Anita did most of her cantorial and general music studies in the Washington, D.C. area. Between 1991 and 2001 she served several congregations ranging from Reform to Reconstructionist to Conservative--in Bethesda and Columbia, MD; Ocean and Clifton, NJ; and Evanston, IL. From 2001-2015 she served Beth Sholom B'nai Israel in Manchester, CT. In most of her pulpits, she directed volunteer choirs. She is a member of the Cantors Assembly and a past president of the Women Cantors' Network (WCN). She was an editor of the WCN's 2019 songbook, Kol Isha.

Currently she lives in south Florida and serves as a Hebrew school and b'nei mitzvah teacher. She is also the music notation editor for a Jewish feminist songbook to be published.

Anita's interest in choral singing began in glee club in third grade, and continued through high school and college. She sang in several choral groups as an adult, including Zemer Chai in Washington, D.C. She began composing for the liturgy as well as choral arranging early in her career. She studied choral composition and arranging with Alice Parker at Westminster Choir College, and also at Hartt School at the University of Hartford. She produced her album, Dvora Ud'vash, in 2007.

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