Born in 1989 in Cieszyn, Poland. Currently between Venice, IT and Kraków, PL.

LANGUAGES

ENGLISH, POLISH, ITALIAN – fluent (some unconscious thought translation from ENG and ITA to my mother tongue may occur)

SPANISH – fluent in listening, writing, reading, needs 3 weeks in Spain to be speaking again

FRENCH – advanced I won’t give a University lecture yet but I can tell you where I ate last night and how good it was

Portuguese, Catalan, German, Japanese  – met them, used them, left them 

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EXHIBITIONS  PROJECTS  COMMISSIONS  

2026

• Premiere: The contour of the invisible things (2025) for solo viola at the 50th INTERNATIONAL VIOLA CONGRESS in Paris – commissioned by Kinga Wojdalska
• Recording/premiere: Prahran (2021) for cello quartet by Joëlle Mauris in Geneva, CH

2025

• Premiere:  A solitude in style, a walk that gives cadence to memories (2025) for piano left hand on November 15th at the II Congreso Internacional EPTA in Madrid, Spain, by Piotr Różański: Contemporary Polish Piano Music for the Left Hand
• Premiere: Vicino ma non troppo (2024) on March 7th by Zarębski Piano Duo at the Music by Women Festival in Mississippi, USA
• Commission from Duo Marco Centasso/ Alberto Collodel – composition for double bass and bass clarinet: The waves of your absence (2025)
• Recording: My Fatherland within my soul (Отечество мое – в моей душе) (2024/2025) based on the poem of Marc Chagall by the multi-award winning vocal ensemble ART’N’VOICES
• Collaboration with Flavia Bucciero from Dance Company  Movimentoinactor Teatrodanza and Massimo Signorini (accordion), Venice, IT – recomposition for accordion: “Testimonianze, ancorché false, della felicità delle cose.” (2025), performence on September 20th in the streets of Venice
• Premiere: Passacaglia per violino e violoncello (2025)– commission by Carlo Lazari e Carlo Teodori from the EX NOVO ENSEMBLE,  June 7th 2025 at the Palazzo Pisani in Venice
• Vicino ma non troppo (2024) performed at the Tynieckie Recitale Kameralne by Zarębski Piano Duo on August 31st

2024

• Marco Polo Opera in Huangzhou, China – November – with the participation of the President of Italy Sergio Mattarella
• Premiere of Solstice (2024) for ensemble on June 22nd at the VENICE ART NIGHT
• Marco Polo: New Opera premiere on April 18th, produced and commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in collaboration with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello and Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
• Premiere of Your face dissolving in pastel colours (2024) for choir- site specific composition at the Palazzo Pisani in Venice – June 21st 
• In Fuga (2020) performed on April 9th by Aleksandra Hałat and Julia Miller at the Gaulitana Festival 2024 in Malta
• Premiere of Celadon: secondo studio (2024) for flute, cello and live electronics – June 12th, Palazzo Pisani, Venice
• Premiere of the music video for Indigo Street by The Whale Project shot by Ruggero Romano, in the studio of celebrated Italian painter Alberto La Tassa 

2023

• Premiere of Le tableu revisité (2023) for piano solo. Performed by Michelangelo D’Adamo at CENTO DI QUESTI GYÖRGY! – festival/hommage a Ligeti in Palazzo Pisani in Venice: 

• Florence Biennale – Installation The Unbearable Lightness – sound design and composition
• Venice Art Night – concert with generative art visuals, organ, piano and live electronics with The Whale Project 
• Premiere of Pur ti miro (2023) on April, 18th at the Commute Festival in Tallin, Estonia
• Bright Festival Florence – sound design and music production for a video installation THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
• The Ethics of Ambiguity (2023), premiered in Zürich, Switzerland on June 6th, performed by Kinga Wojdalska 
• Premiere of compositions for bass voice and ensemble The mind is its own place (2022) and for alto voice and organ Co do Gwiazd (2022) at the Festival Camino Contro Corrente XIV in Friuli, IT
• Mutual feelings – project in collaboration with cellist Francesco Dillon and flutist Manuel Zurria 
• Premiere of What the animals tell me (2023) on July, 25 at the Festival Gustav Mahler Musikwochen in Toblach, Italy 
• Venice Overdose– short film by the Albanian video artist and poet Eni Derhemi: composition and performance of music for the production 
• Thesis written in Italian on Musical Recomposition presented at the Venice Conservatory Benedetto Marcello

2022

• Biennale Musica – participation in the project of Helena Tulve Visiones – Venice, Italy
• Premiere of Le Pietre di Venezia (2022) for two organs and fixed media at the Palazzo Pisani on June 9th, Venice, Italy
• Film Cielo Aperto by Ruggero Romano: composition of music for the Kaba scene
• Singer (contralto voice) with the Capella Marciana at San Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy
• Music written for ensemble accompanying the stories by writer Gemma Moldi in hommage a E.T.A. Hoffmann performed in Ateneo Veneto by the students of Liceo Musicale di Venezia
• 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. 
• Exhibition The Architecture of inner space, South Side Festival, Melbourne, Australia – collaboration with Australian artist Agata Mayes. A vibrant art installation where a sculptural form built from a baby grand piano acts as a canvas for a video projection. By emphasising its exposed, internal parts, the artist suggests emotions, thoughts, fleeting memories as if it has become a living entity. A multilayered soundscape by Anna Dobrucka compounds all elements and adds another sensory dimension to the space. 

2021 

• Creation of music for the choreography L’ordre ne tient qu’à un fil, Geneva, Switzerland – collaboration with Geneva dancers Nora Mondada and Fabien Chevalley.
• Exhibition The Essence – Cube Gallery, Frankston Art Centre, Australia An immersive and alluring installation that offers a unique, sensorial experience by combining soundscape, sculpture, video and photography, exploring the subject of consciousness by challenging our views on reality and the origin of the universe. Artist: Agata Mayes Music: Ana Dobrucka
• Silent full feature film The Wind – creating prepared improvisation for the projection of the 1928 silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The work was shared with pianist Pierre Mancinelli. Live performance took place in Reims, France on September 30th at the festival Les Concerts de Poche

2020

• Contemporary music XII Festival Camino Contro Corrente, Italy – premiere of the piece “In Fuga” by the Jost Costa Duo
• Contemporary music/oriental fusion Anna Dobrucka (Massetti) Piano + Tempo Rubato, Melbourne, Australia – concert of Ania’s compositions written in years 2016-2020 for piano, koto, koto duo, erhu, violin, double bass, cello; Collaboration with artists from China, Malaysia and Australia

2019

• Exhibition/installation Fresh 19  Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia – Project ORIGINS with visual artist and photographer – Agata Mayes. Soundscape by Anna Dobrucka

2016-2018 

• Music group 3 Laetare, collaboration with Magdalena Żuk Krakowska – vocal, lyrics; Katarzyna Rząsa– vocal, lyrics; Anna Dobrucka– composition, piano; performing in Australia in venues such as the Deakin Edge Theatre or the Melbourne Arts Centre 

2013-2014  Ballet Accompanist Cracow Opera House Ballet Studio – accompaniment and creation of music for ballet practice

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EDUCATION

2023-2025 – Master of Composition – Conservatory of Music Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy

2020-2023 – Bachelor of Composition – Conservatory of Music Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy

2020-2021 – Master of Music Pedagogy – Institut Jaques-Dalcroze – Haute École de Musique, Geneva, Switzerland

2014 – 2015 Political Science: Trans-Atlantic Relations – ERASMUS + INTERNSHIP University of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

2013 – 2015 Master of Political Science (International Relations, International Security) – Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland

2011 – 2012 Piano Pedagogy – ERASMUS SCHOLARSHIP Conservatório Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo, Valencia, Spain

2009 – 2012 Bachelor of Music Education, Piano Performance – University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

2003 – 2009 2nd level Diploma of Professional Musician class of piano performance and Dalcroze eurhythmics – I. J. Paderewski Secondary Music School, Cieszyn, Poland

1995 – 2001 1st level Diploma of Professional Musician (Piano Performance) – I. J. Paderewski Primary Music School, Cieszyn, Poland

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COURSES

2024 Warsaw Autumn composer workshops with Sergej Newski, Wojciech  Blecharz, Raphaël Cendo

2024 Summer course with Francesco Filidei and Mauro Lanza + ensemble Collettivo_21

2021 Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium, Taubman Approach.  New York, NY

2021 MentiParti Summer Academy: Partimento method in composition and improvisation with Tobias Cramm, Basel, Switzerland

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AWARDS  RESIDENCES  

2023 Composer in residence – MONTEVERDI MOSAIK project in collaboration with the contemporary music ensemble Azione Improvvisa. „Monteverdi-inspired“ pieces  will be performed in the framework of COMMUTE festival in April 2023 in Tallin, Estonia.

2022-2023 Composer in residence – a project in collaboration with the Gustav Mahler Research Centre (GMRC), commission for a chamber orchestra, El Cimarrón Ensemble  – to be performed in July 2023 during the Mahler Music Weeks festival in Dobbiaco, Italy

2022 Best Artistic Concept Award for LUMIÈRE at the 9º Super OFF – Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8, São Paulo, Brazil

Official Selection at the Super 8 International Film Festival in Curitiba 17th edition

2021 Prix special Fondation Aletheia winner:  L’ordre ne tient qu’à un fil – dance choreography by Nora Mondada, music by Anna Dobrucka. Geneva, Switzerland

2017 Special Award for Composition – with Magdalena Krakowska for song Insurekcja – International Kosciuszko Bicentenary Competition Kosciuszko Heritage. Sydney, Australia

2011 Best Student Of The Year Award University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

2010 Best Student Of The Year Award University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland