Autor: Michal Smoira Cohn

The Musicologist Michal Smoira Cohn has a place among the few personalities who have left their mark on musical life in Israel.She served as Head of Music of the Israel Broadcasting Authority for over 25 years; acted as Head of the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, was the music critic of the daily Hebrew newspaper «Haaretz», and was nominated Chairperson of the Music Section in the Ministry for Education and Culture.An expert on «Musical Thought, » she lectured at the Tel-Aviv Universiry and at the Music Academies of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, on aesthetics of music, musical forms, music history and music literature.Her books include An Historical Introduction into Music, Meanings in Music, and A personal Repertoire.Michal Smoira Cohn was born in Tel-aviv, lived most of her life in Jerusalem, is a graduate of the Palestine Academy of Music in Jerusalem, and the Higher Seminar of Musical Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the daughter of the first Chief Justice of Israel, Moshe Smoira, and the widow of Justice Haim H. Cohn, of Israel»s Supreme Court, and former Attorney General of Israel. She has two children; she is a greatmother of four, and a great-great-mother of three.