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Nubia Jaime-Donjuan
Hermosillo, Sonora,1984.
Composer and Cellist

Nubia Jaime-Donjuan Hermosillo, Sonora,1984. Composer and Cellist Nubia Jaime-Donjuan began her cello studies at age 6, forming part of the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Sonora. She then continued her professional studies at the University of Sonora. She has studied composition with Arturo Márquez and Alexis Aranda, orchestration with David H. Bretón, and a composition master class with Brian Banks through the University of the Americas Puebla. 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, always taking inspiration from different elements of nature. Her music has been interpreted by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sonora, Symphonic Orchestra of the National Polytechnic Institute, Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, Valley Winds, Iberoamerican Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Tzinzuni, University of North Florida Wind Symphony, Symphonic Orchestra of the BUAP, Symphonic Band of the Faculty of Music of the UNAM, Orchestra “Nosotras Sonamos”, National Symphonic Orchestra of Mexico “OSN”, Smith College Wind Ensemble, Musikgesellschaft Konkordia Reinach, Municipal Symphonic Band of Botucatu, Symphonic Orchestra of Chiapas, CECAMBA, Departamental Band of the Valley of Cauca, International Camerata of Barcelona, MET Winds, University of Houston Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra of Bellas Artes “OCBA”, Bamda Simfònica de la Unió L’Elinana, Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso de la Nación de Paraguay, etc. 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. Nubia Melina Jaime Donjuan Tel: +526623150444 Email: cellonubia@gmail.com