Doris Ćosić (1999) started her music path at the age of six in Velenje, Slovenia. Doris’s passion for music combined with her interest in medicine reflects in her collaboration with different non-profit organizations and outreach programs, as well as her desire to further research the field of music therapy. Another one of her passions is advocating for women in music and working on projects that showcase women composers and performers. She also continues to promote music of her heritage, and regularly performs compositions by Balkan composers. Doris graduated with honors from USC Thornton School of Music in 2022, and she is continuing her studies there with Brian Head, Scott Tennant, and Bill Kanengiser in pursuit of a master’s degree. She is also studying flamenco with Adam del Monte at USC and studied jazz and pop guitar with Steve Trovato and Tim Kobza. She has worked with many world-renowned guitarists throughout the years and learned from the very best, such as David Russell, Pepe Romero, Paolo Pegoraro, Mak Grgić, Gabriel Bianco, Margarita Escarpa, Paul O’Dette and many others. She’s been competing on a national and international level since 2009; she’s received first prizes at a national and international level. Her most recent achievements are second prize at Gohar&Ovanes Andriassian Guitar Competition in Los Angeles (2019), and first prize at both CalASTA Los Angeles and CalASTA State Guitar competition (2020). She’s performed at numerous occasions, one of them being the GFA Las Vegas Symposium (2020). In 2020, she recorded her first solo videos at Guitar Salon International and was featured in their Artist Spotlight. She is currently a volunteer at LAC+USC Medical Center’s music program and enjoys sharing her love for music with their patients and staff. She also works at Virtual Guitar Orchestra as an assistant editor, where she’s created the very first all-women Virtual Guitar Orchestra in collaboration with Grammy-nominated Clarice Assad. She is also a teaching artist at Lead Guitar, a non-profit organization that implements music programs around public schools across five states. She is actively participating in USC Guitar Orchestra and was the music director of USC all women a cappella group “Sirens” for two years, with which she recorded two albums.