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Mieke Johanna Doezma

Graduate Assistant

The dual roots of Mieke Doezema’s music are New Mexico’s high desert and her work as an advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in Washington state (2019-2021), where she studied music composition and education at Western Washington University. In 2019, she premiered an evening of electro-acoustical and large ensemble compositions including Drunk Masculinity, Evolution to Equilibrium, Forget Me Not, and Unwelcome aimed at exploring trauma, healing, and accountability through music.

Doezema is a “swiss-army knife” teacher, having experience in all grade levels K-12 teaching orchestra, choir, and band since receiving her undergraduate degree in 2020. While teaching in the Northshore school district from 2021-2023 as an orchestra and choir director, she continued to write music under the mentorship of Reena Esmail and participate in workshops and music festivals around the world such as Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab and Mostly Modern Festival in Netherlands. Doezema now pursues her Master’s in Music Composition at University of Hawai’i at Manoa, participating in research and collaborations in intercultural composition and focusing on the synthesis of martial arts and music.