Dr. Ilil Keren, musician & musiceducator
skills
Musician:
Professional guitar player
Choir conductor
Composer
Music producer
Music Educator:
Early childhood music specialist
Musical development researcher
College lecturer
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mul-Gilad grade school, jordan valley, ISRAEL 1989-1994
Music teacher & choir conductor
jordan valley & Jezreel valley Kindergartens 1989 - present
Early childhood music specialist
Israel ministry of education 2008 - present
Facilitator for teachers training workshops
Beit Berl College 2012 - present
Lecturer in the Early Childhood Education Department
Main courses:
Music and the Developing Child
Music in the Child's Everyday Life
Music in Teaching Programs
ohalo College 2015 - 2018
Lecturer in the Early Childhood Education Department
Main courses:
Music to Enrich the Educator
Music in the Child's Everyday Life
Music and Stories
Promoting Music Education from Birth to Four
Singing with Children
oranim College 2016 - present
Lecturer in the Early Childhood Education Department
Main courses:
Music and the Developing Child
Creating, Performing & Listening: Music Center in the Kindergarten
Academic education
b.a & b. mus.ed. Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem, 1984-1988
m.a. Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2005-2010
pHd Bar Ilan University, 2013-2020
Conference presentations
EECERA Conference, Prague 2007
Creativity in Performance Arts, co-author –
Dr. Susan Young (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
ISSA Conference, Budapest 2008 – Every Voice Counts
The Levinsky College of Education Conference, Israel 2012 –
Early Childhood Musical Dialogues as a Means of Music Education
Children Talk Music Seminar, Israel 2013 – Musical Dialogues
ISME Commission on Early Childhood Music Education (ECME),
Ede, the Netherlands 2016 – Body, Cognition and Behavior in Toddler's Instrumental Improvisations
additional experience
Graduate of the Ktan-Tone Program with Dr. Michal Hefer, on
music education from birth to age 3, Israel 2003
Completed workshop - Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon with Prof. Beth Bolton from the Gordon Institute for Music Learning of Temple University, Rome 2004