Aleksandra Nagorna
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Aleksandra is a Ukrainian-American violinist, composer, and music producer based here in Des Moines. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Iowa State University where she studied violin under Borivoj Martinić-Jerčić and also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Her thesis focused on writing music for dramatic non-musical theatre, an approach she applied last year when composing a 70 minute orchestral-blues-dubstep soundtrack for the George Daily Auditorium’s stage production of The Hobbit. Most recently, she composed an original string quintet soundtrack for director/producer William Rock's feature-length film adaptation of Susan Glaspell's short story: A Jury of Her Peers.