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Dr. Kira Zeeman Rugen is a conductor, composer, singer, educator, and Director of choral, vocal, and musical theatre studies at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. Kira Rugen is the founder and artistic director of Solis - Choir of the Sun, a professional choir in Arizona. Now in their thirteenth season, Solis’ collaborations include high-profile performances with Andrea Bocelli in live concert, The Eagles, The Chieftains, Zelda, Symphony of the Goddesses, Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, plus performing with composer Ramin Djawadi for the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience. As a professional singer, Dr. Rugen is in her twenty-first season as a soprano with the Phoenix Chorale, with whom she has won two Grammy Awards. Furthermore, she has performed with Norvis Early Music in Durham, England; at Carnegie Hall’s Young Artist Concert Series with Ton Koopman; at Korea’s Incheon International Choral Festival; and she toured with Anúna (Ireland’s National Choir) under Michael McGlynn throughout Ireland, Japan and China. Kira Rugen’s compositions (found at the Fred Bock Group/Gentry Publications and MusicSpoke.com) have been performed worldwide. She is a 2022 winner in the HerVoice Music Composition Competition in Chicago and the award was a premiere performed by the Vancouver Youth Choir directed by Carrie Tennant. As a film composer, Kira Rugen is a recent 2022-23 award winner for Best Original Score/Best Composer for the film MusArt in over thirty international film festivals. She was recently named the 3rd Place Winner in The American Prize, professional choral composition division, and a finalist for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for Performance of American Music Composition.  Dr. Kira Z. Rugen graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting and a cognate in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University in May 2013.