Dina Pruzhansky is an award-winning composer and pianist based in NYC. Praised for her “cinematic, movingly evoking” compositions (Broadway World) that “bring forth the liveliest playing” from the performers (The New York Times), she maintains a diverse international career. Her creative output ranges from classical concert music to cabaret and from liturgical works to musical theater, with a special emphasis on opera and vocal works.

Dina is the winner of The Atlanta Opera’s 96-Hour Opera Festival competition (2025), togehter with librettist Hai-Ting Chinn. Her opera film ‘Heroes of New York’ (libretto by Briana Hunter, 2021), has been named an official selection for a number of international festivals, including O22 by Opera Philadelphia. Her opera ‘Shulamit’, commissioned through a Genesis UJA grant, premiered in 2014. The success of the ‘Shulamit’ premiere has led to a new NYC production in 2016 by popular demand at the JCC of Manhattan Auditorium, with excerpts later featured at the Aspen Music Festival 2019, and at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, 2020.

Additional composer credits include Aspen Composition Fellowship and Orchestra work competition (finalist), 2019; 1st prize at Noosa Isam International Piano Composition Competition (2018); 3rd prize at the International Joseph Dorfmann composer competition (2018). An alumna of the Tony-awarded BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop, she was nominated for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre writing and selected as a finalist for the NYMF 2019.

As composer-performer, Dina Pruzhansky has appeared at the leading venues including Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Bargemusic, Symphony Space, YIVO, 92NY, The Kosciuczko Foundation, and Le Poisson Rouge, among others. Her works have also been heard at a number of international stages and broadcast on platforms such as WQXR, Kol HaMusica, RTVi, and various European networks.

Selected premiere performers include Aspen Conductors' Orchestra (AM New York for Symphony Orchestra), ACE quartet (Under The Red Moon, revised), Semplice Players (quartet Under The Red Moon), Downtown Sinfonietta of White Plains with narration by Robert Sherman (Symphony Tale for the whole family 'Teeny-Tiny Violin'), Bachanalia strings ensemble (Holiday Music, The Song of Songs),Quartetto Indaco (String Quartet no. 1), the ARK trio (On Love and Land for soprano, cello, & piano), NB Chamber Group (quartet for clarinet, violin, cello, & piano), clarinetist Julian Milkis, pianists Hagai Yodan, Renana Gutman, and many others.

Pruzhansky has served as composer-in-residence at Temple Israel of Northern Westchester and Temple Shalom, Dallas. Her liturgical works have been featured at the Zamir Choral Festival NAJCF.

She was born in Azerbaijan to Jewish Ukranian parents and raised in Israel, before moving to New York in 2006. She is a postgraduate alumna from the Mannes School of Music. A passionate educator, she teaches at the 92NY School of Music, and is the author 'I Can Play Chopin’, a book of accessible piano arrangements for students. She is also a sought-after guest in music talk programs and podcasts. Dina Pruzhansky holds an MA in piano performance summa cum laude from Tel-Aviv University, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History.