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It was clear from an early age that music would be the defining element in Dascha Dauenhauer’s life. She began composing and playing the piano at the age of five and studied composition at the Moscow Music Conservatory as a child. After her family moved to Berlin, Dascha attended the Academy for Exceptionally Gifted Children and Young People and was later accepted as a young student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin. She also received composition lessons at the Julius Stern Institute. During this time, Dascha was already composing her own pieces, and her orchestral piece ‘Sinfonietta’, celebrated its world premiere with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2004. In 2006, she began her diploma studies in music theory at the UDK Berlin and subsequently completed her master’s program in film music at the Film University in Babelsberg.
Dascha has been working as a film composer since 2015, collaborating on numerous feature films. Jibril by Henrika Kull, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018, along with Burhan Qurbani’s celebrated work, Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2020. Dauenhauer also scored the music for ‘Evolution’ by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2021.
An award-winning composer, Dascha was nominated in three categories for the German Film Music Awards in 2018, winning in the ‘Best Short Film’ and ‘Newcomer’ categories. In 2020, she won the German Film Award for ‘Best Film Score’ as well as the European Film Award for her music in Berlin Alexanderplatz. In 2022 she received the GEMA Music Authors’ Prize in the category ‘Composition Audiovisual Media’ and received the prestigious ‘Best Music Award' for the series Souls at the Cannes International Series Festival.
Most recently, Dascha composed the music for the series The Swarm, which premiered in February 2023 at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as the film, Golda (starring Helen Mirren), directed by Guy Nattiv.
Photo credit: Marcus Höhn