Dina Pruzhansky is an award-winning composer and pianist, residing in NYC. Praised for her “cinematic, movingly evoking” compositions (Broadway World) that “brought 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. As composer/performer, she has been featured at venues such as Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Bargemusic, Symphony Space, YIVO, Opera America Center, Aspen Music Festival, 92NY, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Le Poisson Rouge, and others, as well as numerous international arenas. Her works have been broadcast on media, including radio WQXR in an exclusive 'Young Artist' program featuring her work, radio channel Kol HaMusica, and several European networks.

Dina Pruzhansky’s 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. Ms. Pruzhansky has won Aspen Composition Fellowship 2019; 1st prize at Noosa Isam International Piano Composition Competition (2018); 3rd prize at the International Joseph Dorfmann composer competition (2018). Following the successful premiere of her opera 'SHULAMIT,' presented in 2014 through a commissioning grant from Genesis UJA, a new production took place in 2016 by popular demand at the JCC of Manhattan Auditorium and shown, in part, at the Aspen Music Festival 2019. 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, pianist Hagai Yodan and many others.

An alumna of the Tony-awarded BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop, Ms. Pruzhansky was nominated for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre writing and selected as a finalist for the NYMF 2019. She 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.

Born in Azerbaijan to Jewish Ukranian parents and raised in Israel, Ms. Pruzhansky moved to New York in 2006. She is a postgraduate alumna from the Mannes School of Music. She serves as a faculty member at the 92NY School of Music. A passionate educator, she is the author of the book of easy piano arrangements 'I Can Play Chopin’, and a sought-after guest in music talk programs and podcasts. Ms. Pruzhansky holds an MA in piano performance summa cum laude from Tel-Aviv University, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History.