Tsippi Fleischer

Tsippi Fleischer was born in 1946 in Haifa

Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa on 20 May 1946 to parents born in Poland. She grew up among both Jews and Arabs. In 1964 she finished the Hebrew Reali School of Haifa.

She studied theory, composition and conducting at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. At Tel Aviv University she studied Hebrew, Arabic and Middle Eastern history, and later Semitic linguistics. She also earned a master's degree in music education from New York University and a doctorate in musicology from Bar-Ilan University in 1995.

In the early 1970s she worked in jazz, theater and light music. She founded the band Banot Chava and later directed music at the Beersheba Theater, where she wrote the musical On the Fiddle. From the late 1970s she wrote concert music, including 7 symphonies and 4 operas.

She taught for decades at the music school of Levinsky College of Education and lectured at Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on Hebrew song, and she published a monograph on Matti Caspi in 2013. She was married to linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky from 1978 until his death in 2012, and they had a son.