Nia Imani Franklin (born 1993)
Nia Imani Franklin was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She graduated from the East Carolina University with a degree in music composition in 2015, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a Master of Music in 2017.
Nia Franklin is the founder of Compose Her, an advocacy group for supporting and encouraging female composers and musicians, and which offers music composition workshops for K-12 students.
Nia Franklin also has non-musical pursuits: In 2018 she was crowned Miss New York, and the following year won the Miss America pageant.
This is Nia Franklin’s first string quartet, entitled “Burgundy in Autumn.”