Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
Hirschprung, R. S., & Leshman, O. (2021). Privacy disclosure by de-anonymization using music preferences and selections. Telematics and Informatics, 59, 101564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101564 
Mizrachi-Segall, M., & Leshman, O. (2023). Connecting Through Our Songs: Music as an Educational Tool for a Meaningful Dialogue among Youth at Risk. In G. Hertz (Ed.), Educational Aspects of Children and Youth At-Risk (No. 23, pp. 29-55). State of Israel Ministry of Education Pedagogical Division Advancement of Youth At-Risk Section.
Slakmon, B.-Z., Skulskiy, D., Leshman, O., & Milstein-Shapira, O. (2024). Cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions of musical dedication education. Thinking Skills and Creativity. Under review.
Hirshprung, R., Leshman, O., & Hajaj, C. (2024). The sound of emotions: An artificial intelligence approach to predicting emotions from musical selections. Under review 

Selected Musical Compositions
Orchestral works:
• An orient Fair - a theatrical musical composition for 6 singers, a symphony orchestra and video art

Chamber works:
• Leah – mono opera for actress-dancer-singer, piano, oud and percussion
• Requiem for Mother - for singer, flute, clarinet and string quintet
• Bein Dor - a piece for a mixed choir
• Berniki – for an actress, 3 singer-actors, a piano and a cello
• Royal Crown – for mezzo soprano, violin, viola, and cello
• Elegy – for alto flute, English horn, harpsichord, Chinese box
• Words of Oblivion and Peace - for singer, flute, bass clarinet, viola, vibraphone and harp.
• Three movements for oboe, clarinet and bassoon

Examples of songs composed for voice and piano:
• Natan Zach: How to sweeten days, when loneliness is not a fear, the bird no longer sings, year after year
• Leah Goldberg: orange bird, Zemer, late swallow, on the edge of light
• Agi Mishol: why are you so far away, magical moments, who will bless you, if the woman gets up from her bed
• Natan Alterman: The stranger is jealous of his wife's charm
• Zelda: The Burning Days, when you were here
• Haim Gori: Haifai memory, this heat, a passing account, Ravat Zarva, Samira the umkaloothomi, it will be bad, nocturne, dirt and ashes, a barter transaction, the land of fire
• T. Karmi: I knew love, opening (nooma nom), return, the watershed
• Yehuda Amichai: An Arab shepherd, peace be upon him, Jerusalem, from the place where we are right
• Yona Wallach: I'm awake, Siphon demo, identity problems, the house is empty
• Pinchas Sde: Earth, my old lips, soon, I sing like a bird, autumn
• Israel Bar Kochav: Requiem, High Definition Mummies
• Uri Zvi Greenberg: Amputation of a wing, the miracle of the song
• Amir Gilboa: You are my soul's love, the first ray, in our house there was a huge cat, like that as I walk
• Gabriel Friel: Farewell
• Chava Pinchas-Cohen: Other God, Kalbata, Confession
• David Avidan: power of attorney
• Meir Wieseltier: Building culture
• Noga Yatomi Raviv: They say she is a cocoon, a song for Jerusalem
• Natan Yonatan: In the same wave, a woman is waiting in the corner
• Roni Somak: a song for a girl who has already been born

List of honors:
2021-2022 - Outstanding Lecturer and Dean's Outstanding Lecturer and Special Grant Reichman University
2020 - Certificate of appreciation for a special contribution to the Department of Education for Children and Youth at Risk, Ministry of Education
2014 - Winner of the "Minister of Culture Award for Musical Composition" for the opera "An orient Fair" to the lyrics of Haim Gouri
2007 - Winner of a special certificate of excellence from the Knesset of Israel (the Israeli parliament) for outstanding doctoral students
2005 - Winner of the President's Scholarship at Bar-Ilan University for outstanding doctoral students 
2001 - Winner of the "America Israel Cultural Foundation" scholarship to study with Zubin Mehta at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, winner of an award on behalf of the "Rabinovitch Foundation for the Arts" for the work "Leah", winner of the "Mark Yagoda" award for the choir composition "Bein Dor" and winner First prize in the composition competition of the Tel Aviv Academy of Music
 

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