Ronja Mokráňová

Ronja is a composer of classical music and film music, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and a songwriter. Interested in story-telling and musical narratives, Ronja’s music has been described as “oddly surprising” and has been compared to Liszt, Ravel and Copland by the Boston Intelligencer. Her music has been performed by the Ciompi Quartet, Thomas Circle Singers, Loadbang, Dal Niente Ensemble, Hub New Music, The Orange Road String Quartet, Lauren Basney & David Hyun-Su Kim, and Philipp Stäudlin among others, and her single-movement work for violin and piano has received honorable recognition at the Pure Vienna International Music Competition 2024. Born and raised in Slovakia, she moved to the United States to pursue an education in composition, she holds an MA in Composition from Tufts University, a BA from Whitman College, and is currently pursuing a PhD at Duke University. She is also a strong advocate for learning music at any age and strives to foster the musical aspiration of those who started musical education only as adults. In her free time, she enjoys writing and producing indie songs, she is an avid hiker and dreams of writing a fantasy novel one day.