Music like Dafina Zeqiri

Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (born 1 April 1984 in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia) is an Albanian Kosovar composer of orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere.

Ms. Zeqiri studied at the Prenk Jakova Conservatory in Pristina from 1997 to 2002. She studied music composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Pristina, graduating in 2007. Her master’s-degree work was with Jana Andreevska at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje She completed the degree in 2011.

In 2009 she founded the organization Kosovar Women in Music, NEO MUSICA, and became a member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica.