Dina Pruzhansky

Dina Pruzhansky is an Azerbaijan-born, Israeli-raised award-winning composer and pianist living in NYC. Her musical output ranges from musical theatre to concert works and from liturgy music to cabaret. She is an alumna of the Mannes School for Music and the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop. Recent commissions and highlights include 'Heroes of New York' - opera-film, commissioned by Bare Opera, 'The Bunny's Great Run' - mini-opera for children, commissioned by New Opera West, Carnegie Hall main stage debut as composer-performer, and Aspen Music Festival composition fellowship 2019. Dina was named the finalist for the 2019 NYMT festival (musical for children CENTRAL PARK). She was nominated for the Fred Ebb Award with the librettist Matt Schatz. As composer/performer, she has been featured at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, The Bargemusic, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space, The Kosciuszko Foundation, and others, and broadcast on media, including the WQXR. Her opera SHULAMIT, which premiered in NYC, in 2014 had received an additional run in 2016 by popular demand and was presented, in part at the Aspen Music Festival, and in concerts at Lincoln Center and mainstage Carnegie Hall. Dina has written a number of chamber, orchestral and instrumental solo compositions, yet vocal music remains her main focus. www.dinapruzhansky.com