Dojrana Prokopieva is a musicologist and cultural project manager. Born in Skopje, she obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Musicology at the Faculty of Music in Skopje, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Dimitrije Buzarovski. In 2007, she received the “Tomislav Zografski” Foundation Award for the best student in the Department of Composition, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, and Pedagogy. She later pursued postgraduate studies in Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Since 2007, she has been actively engaged in the organization, production, and promotion of cultural events, collaborating with numerous institutions and festivals. Before relocating to Ljubljana, she gained experience working with some of the most significant music festivals in Macedonia (“Skopje Jazz Festival,” “OFFest,” “Days of Macedonian Music,” “Ohrid Summer Festival,” “Skopje Summer Festival,” “Autumn Music Festivities,” “Golden Lyre”), where she took on various roles in project management, festival production, and public relations. In 2012, she briefly worked as a freelance music critic for the daily newspaper Dnevnik. She has contributed program notes and critical essays for major festivals such as the May Opera Evenings, Ohrid Summer Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, and Virtuosi.”

From 2012 to 2016, she was a project manager at the “Skopje Jazz Festival” Cultural Institution. Between 2018 and 2024, she worked as a project manager at Zavod Druga godba in Ljubljana, one of the leading organizations in the field of so-called global music (world music). In 2024–2025, she served as a program coordinator at Center Rog – Creative Hub in Ljubljana. More recently, she has been active as an independent event manager and cultural organizer, collaborating with various organizations and international projects.

She has authored papers in the fields of musicology and cultural studies, as well as music reviews and interviews, some of which have appeared in journals and collections such as Muzika, Kinopis, Teatarski Glasnik, IRAM Contemporary Trends in Musicology & Ethnomusicology, among others.