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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, Honorable mention in the Pops 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.