Nubia Jaime-Donjuan began her cello studies at age 6 as part of the Symphonic Youth
Orchestra of Sonora and continued her professional studies at the University of Sonora.
She studied composition with Arturo Márquez and Alexis Aranda and she studied orchestration with David H. Bretón.

Proud of her roots and being raised by her musician father and historian mother, Ms. Jaime Donjuan has adopted the artistic and cultural expressions of her surroundings to create her music, taking inspiration from different elements of nature.

Her music has been interpreted by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sonora, the Symphonic Orchestra of the National Polytechnic Institute, Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, the Valley Winds, the Iberoamerican Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tzinzuni, the University of North Florida Wind Symphony, the Symphonic Orchestra of the BUAP,  the Faculty of the UNAM, the Orchestra “Nosotras Sonamos”,  the National Symphonic Orchestra of Mexico “OSN”, the Smith College Wind Ensemble, Musikgesellschaft Konkordia Reinach, the Municipal Symphonic Band of Botucatu, the Symphonic Orchestra of Chiapas, CECAMBA, the Departamental Band of the Valley of Cauca, the International Camerata of Barcelona, MET Winds, the University of Houston Wind Ensemble, the Chamber Orchestra of Bellas Artes “OCBA”, Bamda Simfònica de la Unió L’Elinana, Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso de la Nación de Paraguay, and more. 

She has participated in the Music Mexico Symposium 2022/Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.,
Midwest Clinic 2022, Chicago IL., Meg Quigley Symposium 2023, Tucson, AZ., Texas Music Educators Association TMEA 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, Music Mexico Symposium 2023/University of Houston, and the International Saxophone Festival of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia in 2023, as a composer.

Ms. Jaime Donjuan is currently a resident composer for the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tzintzuni.

Nubia navigates between two worlds as a composer and performer, being a cellist in the Pitic
Quintet, a beneficiary of FONCA 2021-2022, and the founder of the Philharmonic Orchestra of
Sonora, where she currently serves as the co-principal cellist. As a composer and performer, she forms part of the project “Las Montoneras”, which unites the work of female composers, performers and researchers, seeking to make women’s work more
recognized in the national music scene.

Nubia is the first and only woman to win the Arturo Márquez Chamber Orchestra Composition Contest (2021), with her work Maso Ye’eme, which merges the popular genre danzon and the Yaqui Deer Dance.