Lilach holds a Master’s degree in Innovative Choir Leading from the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, where she studied with Prof. Jim Daus Hjernøe, Malene Rigtrup, Jesper Holm, and Peder Karlsson. During her studies, she also studied choral arranging and composition, as well as the Vocal Painting method, which she currently teaches at the Academy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Choral Conducting and Music Education from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she studied with Prof. Stanley Sperber and Oded Shomroni.
Since 2015, she has been conducting and teaching at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she founded and continues to lead the Multidisciplinary Faculty Choir. She teaches vocal improvisation in a vocal ensemble and choral writing within the “Kolot Shebalev” project, in which composition students write for children’s and youth choirs in Israel. Between 2016 and 2021, she served as director of the Yitzhak Navon Community Involvement Unit at the Academy. She also established and led the Shalem College students’ choir, which operated for seven years and was also open to amateur singers in Jerusalem.
As an arranger, she has written for the Academy Chamber Choir, the Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, the women’s choir “Maestra” (Denmark), and others. Creator of the interdisciplinary project “End of the World Ensemble,” developed during the COVID-19 period in Israel, centered around the work “On the Day of the Bomb.”
Lilach was part of the artistic team of the social-musical initiative “Koolulam” (2017–2021), as a conductor, singer, pianist, and vocal arranger, and performed with the project in Israel, the United States, Canada and South Africa.
In 2022, she joined Simply, a leading Israeli music education startup, where she is part of the team developing an app that makes the art and joy of singing accessible to all.
In summer 2023, she represented Israel in the IVLP program – Promoting Social Change Through Music – of the U.S. Department of State, and within this framework she was awarded the program’s Impact Award for her work in advancing the Vocal Painting method in Israel.
She is a co-founder of the Sonora Ensemble - a new professional vocal ensemble creating work rooted in the realities of life in Israel, in which she also sings and arranges.
