Dr. Dana Rokosny, modern and baroque violist, is a member of the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra and Oregon Mozart Players. She also regularly performs with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera Orchestra, Oregon Ballet Theater, MicroPhilharmonic, Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and numerous ensembles  throughout the state. During summers Dana performs with the Oregon Bach Festival, Sunriver Music Festival, and Siletz Bay Music Festival. Additionally, Dana plays with the Portland based Stumptown String Quartet performing numerous Fever Candlelight concerts a month.

She is Instructor of Viola at Lewis and Clark College and maintains a private viola/violin studio named DUO K studios in SW Portland. Dana has maintained a thriving private studio of violists and violinists of all ages and levels for twenty years.

Dana performs on a 2004 Guy Rabut viola and a 2021 Pierre-Yves Fuchs bow. Her primary teachers are Dan Foster, Katherine Murdock, Doris Lederer, Karen Ritscher, Lynne Ramsey, Debra Moree, and Phyllis Freeman. Also, she has worked closely with Joan DerHovsepian, Jeff Irvine, Ralph Fielding, Jane Starkman, Roger Myers, Rebecca Henry, Sheri Sinift, and Alan Bodman.

As an advocate for equity and diversity in the arts, Dana is an Education and Performance Ambassador and Consultant for Boulanger Initiative, an organization promoting music of womxn composers (previously, she was the Assistant Executive Director). Dana is a proud union member of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM)- Locals 99, 677 Hawai’i, and 689 Eugene, previously Locals 40-543 Baltimore, and 161-710 Washington, DC. Currently, she is serving as an executive board member of the AFM Local 99 Musicians’ Union and secretary of the affiliated Music Education Assistance Project (MEAP).

B.M., Ithaca College; M.M., Rice University; Professional Studies, Cleveland Institute of Music; D.M.A, University of Maryland College Park