Tsippi Fleischer

Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1946. Her parents, Polish-born Jewish pioneers met in Palestine. Before Tsippi was born her father’s entire family had already perished during the Holocaust. As a three-year-old she was already improvising at the piano. In time she studied piano and theory formally at the Rubin Conservatory of Music in Haifa. She grew up in a Jewish-Arab environment and the ambience of co-existence characterizing the city of Haifa flows naturally into her creative oeuvre. Fleischer’s style has diversified greatly during her creative life; her many achievements are characterized by the dynamics of change. In the operatic genre, the Chamber Opera “Medea” (world premiere, Israel, 1997) was followed by the Grand Chamber Opera Cain and Abel (world premiere, Israel, 2002). Both these works were given their European premieres during 2004 and 2005. The opera “Oasis”, entering into the world of Hebrew children and their Bedouin counterparts in the Sinai desert in the days of the Exodus from Egypt – their first encounter and subsequent emotional parting, marks one of the pinnacles of the composer’s ideological and musical statement. The opera was first performed by Cantus Juvenum in Karlsruhe on 12th of November 2010. Fleischer is one of the most active contributors to the ideology of the correlation between composition and music education in Israel, advocating the synthesis between East and West. This also demonstrates her profound pacifistic ideology. It is this local view of the Semitic Mediterranean East in the
language of the avantgarde and the personal, original and feminine stamp characterizing Fleischer’s works that have gained her significant international acclaim.

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