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Mia Turakhia (age 14) is a composer, violinist, and pianist from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a 9th grader at The Nueva School and attends the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College. She has been recognized as the winner of the Kris Getz Composition Competition, the Robert Avalon Foundation for Modern Music Competition, the National Young Composers Challenge Ensemble Competition, and was a finalist in the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Competition. Mia attended the 2025 Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Composition Program on a full merit scholarship. As a Luna Composition Lab fellow, Mia was mentored by Nina Shekhar.