Alexandra Petkovski, also known professionally as her artist project, FJÃÂRA, is a Canadian composer, producer, artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Petkovski was born in Toronto, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen's University, and applied for a Master of Music in Composition from Belmont University, but decided not to take it. Instead she entered the music industry, taking a sabbatical from New York University's Steinhardt School of Music, where she was pursuing postgraduate studies for film scoring.
Petkovski serves on the board of directors for the Alliance for Women Film Composers, Screen Composers Guild of Canada, is a voting member at the World Soundtrack Academy, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and was invited to join the Recording Academy's voting member class of 2022. She was selected for the Grammy's #NEXT Class of 2023 ambassadors. She is an alumnus of the Slaight Family Music Lab at the Canadian Film Centre and of the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive, where she studied under the direction of William Ross, Angel Velez, Conrad Pope and Emilie Bernstein, composing for and recording with the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra.