Born in Shkoder in 1994. The beginnings of his musical life were in the piano during the age of 6-17 years at the artistic lyceum “Prenkë Jakova” in Shkoder. In the year 2012 he starts studying for a Bachelor’s Degree in the University of Arts in Tirana under the direction of Professor Vasil S. Tole.
In 2015 Jetmir continues his studies for a Master’s Degree under the direction of Professor Vasil S. Tole and graduates in 2018. In this time, he worked on several projects during his university years and participated in competitions also. In December 2018 he won the special prize for young composer on a competition that was organized from the Ministry of Culture which was held in Tirana. Jetmir uses a specific writing language which contains a complexity of different modal scales, in which he keeps the authenticity of his country’s folklore music, combined with classical harmony.
The Ballet “Ballkan Express” out of which the libretto is according to the same book with the same title written from the author Stefan Çapaliku has a diverse range of distinguished harmonically and rhythmically textures.
In 2019 Jetmir attended the Irish Summer School where he was presented with a trio of piano, clarinet and soprano titled “Muji, Halili and Zana”. The libretto of this work comes from Albanian epic songs, specifically from Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors.
In November 2019 he attended the Tirana Composition Academy with workshops and lectures directed by Thomas Simaku, professor at the York University and Jérôme Comte, prestigious clarinetist, professor at Conservatoire de Paris and part of Ensemble Intercontemporain who also played Jetmir’s score for solo clarinet called “Agony”.
In June – July 2022, Jetmir represented Vox Baroque Albania as resident composer in the Ljubljana Festival. In December 2022, he won a prize in the Cesk Zadeja competition hosted by the Albania’s Ministry of Culture.
In January 2023, Jetmir won a prize for 3rd place in the International Composition contest “Flute&Clarinet” by Diaphonia Edizioni. In March 2023, he was a finalist in the Balkan Composer Competition in Prishtina for Sextet. In May 2023, Jetmir finished in the 3rd place in the O/Modernt Composition Award for Piano Quartet. While he won 1st place for the George Stephănescu Composition Competition Piano Soprano.
In July 2023, he won the competition as the representative composer of Albania in the Youth Orchestra of the Western Balkans (WBO orchestra) with his work Albania Folk Dance for symphony orchestra. In December 2023, Jetmir won the prize given for the 70th anniversary of Albanian’s National Theatre of Opera and Ballet with the work “Pak Drite”.
In 2024, he won second place in the competition to represent Albania as a composer in the Youth Orchestra of the Western Balkans (WBO orchestra) with his work Albania goes Pop & Rock.
In 2025, Jetmir was accepted into the PhD program in Musicology at the University of Arts in Tirana.