Dora Cojocaru (born 20 August 1963 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian composer.
Cojocaru studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca and obtained diplomas in composition, pedagogy and piano there in 1986. After studying with Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, she was awarded a master's degree in composition. In 1997, she obtained a Ph.D. in musicology with a thesis on György Ligeti. After publication in 1999, the work was awarded the prize of the Romanian Composers' Union.[1][2][3]
From 1990 to 2002, Cojocaru taught at the Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, and from 1993 to 1995 she worked for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. She has been living in Montreal since 2002 and teaches at different music institutions.[4][5]