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Joanna McDonald (age 23) is a composer and guitarist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Houston, Texas, who loves multi-faceted music projects. She is inspired by nature, electronics, dance, the local Tulsa and Houston communities, and the deaf community, which she intertwines in her works. Joanna strives to make any of her compositional projects or performances contain some type of connection to a local community or person, and she loves finding ways to interconnect her work to topics or fields outside of music. She received her bachelor’s degree in music composition from Rice University.