ANNA DOBRUCKA COMPOSER

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ANNA DOBRUCKA COMPOSER

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Film by Eni Derhemi

Venice, Italy

Film by Nikolas Candido

Geneva, Switzerland
Best Artistic Concept Award at the 9º Super OFF – Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 in São Paulo
Best Artistic Concept Award at the 9º Super OFF – Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 in São Paulo
Official Selection at the Super 8 International Film Festival in Curitiba 17th edition

Anna Dobrucka (*1989) born in Cieszyn, Poland, currently based in Venice, is a composer, pianist, lecturer and producer.

She began her piano studies at the age of 5, completing 12 years of full time Music School in Poland specialising in piano performance and Dalcroze method of teaching. Then, she continued studies at the University of Silesia in Poland and on a scholarship at the Conservatorio Superior in Valencia, Spain. She also continued to raise her qualifications in the Dalcroze method at the Institut Dalcroze at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. She studied composition with Thomas Reiner in Melbourne, Australia and with Riccardo Vaglini at the Venice Conservatory of Music in Italy graduating with highest marks and honours. She attended masterclasses and lectures by Achim Christian Bornhöft, Paweł Mykietyn, Yasuko Yamaguchi, Aleksander Lasoń, Stefan Hakenberg, Nicola Sani, Gabriele Manca, Giacomo Manzoni.

Anna participates in projects that include 3D art installations (XIV Florence Biennale), dance choreograpy, theatre (Teatro La Fenice) and film. She writes for soloists and ensembles (Azione Improvvisa), gives concerts of piano improvisation, usually connected with video or text projections. She takes part in composer residencies, international projects (Biennale Musica, Venezia) and her music is performed internationally. 

Her four-year sojourn in Australia exposed her to the unique sounds of traditional instruments from Japan, China and Bali, inspiring her to study their distinctive notation and collaborate with local performers. After moving to Venice, she explores the sonic possibilities of ancient instruments such as the theorbo, antique organ and viola da gamba, as well as the use of the electric guitar in the setting of classical music. Anna believes that altering the sounds of instruments and mixing musical traditions are infinite thus giving an opportunity for the never-ending exploration. Currently she is carrying out a research on the process of musical recomposition.

MUSIC

MUSIC

PROJECTS

ART INSTALLATIONS

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The unbearable lightness

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ORIGINS

Collaborative work with visual artist Agata Mayes. Electronic soundscape to a 3D projection on a dodecahedron. Exhibited at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery in 2019.

VIDEO

Venice Overdose

Film by poetess, historian and film director Eni Derhemi shot in Venice in 2023

Lumière

Producing a film in a Super8 format with Brazilian filmmaker Nicolas Candido. Film created to illustrate the 2019 composition Lumière. Geneva, Switzerland, 2021

Perfect Solitude by Yulia Velems

Soundscape for the 3d video artwork with the latest innovations, photogrammetry, 3d modelling, digital jewelerry. Milan, Italy and Berlin, Germany. 2022

COLLABORATIONS

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The Whale Project

In 2022 Anna joins the music project by fellow composer Sviatoslav Avilov. Vocals, piano, electric guitar. Venice, Italy.
Featuring the MultiPlato visuals generation algorithm by Sviatoslav Avilov
Participation in the project of Helena Tulve - VISIONES

2022 Biennale Musica - Venice, Italy

Participation in the project of Helena Tulve – VISIONES
Collaboration with 6 different instrumentalists based in Melbourne, Australia performing Ania's compositions written between years 2016 and 2019

Piano +

Collaboration with 6 different instrumentalists based in Melbourne, Australia performing Ania’s compositions written between years 2016 and 2019

THE WIND

Creating prepared improvisation for the projection of the 1928 silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The work is shared with pianist Pierre Mancinelli. Live performance took place in Reims, France on September 30th, 2021.
Collaboration with the koto master Brandon Lee. Working on the Rokudan arrangement for piano and koto and prepared improvisation. Live performance took place in Melbourne in January 2020.

Brandon Lee - koto

Collaboration with the koto master Brandon Lee. Working on the Rokudan arrangement for piano and koto and prepared improvisation. Live performance took place in Melbourne in January 2020.
Magdalena Krakowska - vocal, lyrics; Katarzyna - vocal, lyrics; Ania Massetti - composition, piano; performing around Australia from 2016 - 2018

Trio Laetare

Magdalena Krakowska – vocal, lyrics; Katarzyna – vocal, lyrics; Ania Massetti – composition, piano; performing around Australia from 2016 – 2018

DANCE

Collaboration with Geneva dancers Nora Mondada and Fabien Chevalley – creation of music for the choreography.

Dance performance L’ordre ne tient qu’à un fil, Geneva, Switzerland

Collaboration with Geneva dancers Nora Mondada and Fabien Chevalley – creation of music for the choreography.

RELEASES

In Fuga

Commisioned and performed by Duo Jost Costa at the Italian Festival Camino Contro Corrente XII (theme: Insecurity, Immigration) on January 16, 2021.
Premiered at the Kosciuszko Bicentenary Competition Gala in Sydney on 3rd October 2017. Music inspired by the poem of Pawel Dobrucki (Winner of the 1st prize for poetry in the International Kosciuszko Bicentenary Competition).

The highest mountain conceals a story, that wind unfolds discreetly

Premiered at the Kosciuszko Bicentenary Competition Gala in Sydney on 3rd October 2017. Music inspired by the poem of Pawel Dobrucki (Winner of the 1st prize for poetry in the International Kosciuszko Bicentenary Competition).

CONTACT

dobruanna@gmail.com