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Dochy Lichtensztajn
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From the Guest Editor Dochy Lichtensztajn
Author Biography
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Dochy Lichtensztajn
Dochy Lichtensztajn is a Musicologist (Ph.D. in Musicology. Tel Aviv Univ.) and Music Educator (Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv). Senior Lecturer at the Levinsky Faculty of Music Education in Western Music History, Jewish Cultural Heritage, Didactic and Methodology for Major Music Dept. in secondary schools, and supervisor in teacher training at the M.Teach degree program. Founder of the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble "Shiruli", a unique model of concerts for young audiences (1988-2000). From 2000 to 2014 she was nominate by the Levinsky Faculty of Music Education as the coordinator and pedagogical supervisor of the Community Programme "Live Music Encounters": the Musica Viva program for kindergarten and major music students in secondary schools, the innovative KeyNote program (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), the Kadma program (New Haifa Symphonic Orchestra), the Meitarim Program (Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra), and the Alhan Program (Polyphony Foundation). In the framework of the KeyNote Program, Dochy is the staff leader of practitioners and facilitators for music community initiatives around the country. Since 2014 she is totally dedicated to the IPO Keynote Program as a pedagogical director. Commissioner member in the CMA International Society for Music Education (2008-2014). In the last years Dochy Lichtensztajn explored issues concerning the live concerts for young audiences and there social and cultural impact, besides dilemmas on politics of vision through dialogues in music education in a conflictual society.
