cellist, composer
O artyście
Dobrawa Czocher (b. 1991) is a Polish cellist and composer. She graduated from the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the cello class of Piotr Hausenplas and from the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold (Germany) under Alexander Gebert. Prizewinner of a number of competitions as both a soloist and chamber musician; she has also participated in numerous international masterclasses and music festivals.
In 2018–2023, she was a soloist/leader of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Szczecin; she has also performed in many prestigious concert halls in Poland and abroad. For many years, Dobrawa Czocher has been cooperating with her close friend, pianist Hania Rani. In 2015, the artists released the album Biała Flaga (White Flag), featuring arrangements of Grzegorz Ciechowski’s music. The album received excellent reviews, attracting interest not only of the music community and journalists, but also of the audience. The next album by the Rani-Czocher duo, Inner Symphonies, was released in 2021 by the legendary label Deutsche Grammophon. Thus, the artists became the youngest composing duo in the label’s history.
In 2023, Dobrawa Czocher released her debut solo album Dreamscapes on the BMG / Modern Recordings label, on which she included her own compositions for cello. In the same year, the album was nominated in six categories (including instrumentalist of the year and composer of the year) for the prestigious German Opus Klassik award. The artist has presented her music in various concert halls all over Europe, including in London, Berlin, Leipzig, Bari or on the Spanish island of Lanzarote. Since the release of Inner Symphonies, she has been constantly expanding her compositional output, writing music for theatre plays or music installations.