Racheli Galay is a cellist, educator, and researcher specializing in Jewish music. She earned her doctoral degree in Cello from Northwestern University, Masters from Indiana University in Bloomington, and a B.A. in Musicology from the University of Tel-Aviv. She is Visiting Researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and music faculty at the Washington Hill College for Education. Galay wrote her dissertation on the life and music of cellist-composer Joachim Stutschewsky. Awarded grants from the Stutschewsky Foundation, the City of Tel Aviv, and YIVO’s Heifetz Fellowship. She presented at the AJS Conference, the Association of Jewish Libraries Convention, Northwestern University Musicology Colloquium, The University of Chicago, The National Library of Israel, Yiddish Summer Weimar 2016, 16th Congress for Jewish Studies, the Israeli Musicology Society conferences, and at the University of Tel Aviv. racheli.galay@gmail.com
