Dascha Dauenhauer 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.

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 of Composition Audiovisual Media and received the prestigious Best Music Award for the series Souls at the Cannes International Series Festival. She has also been nominated for Discovery of the Year twice at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2020 and most recently in 2023 for her score to Golda.

Most recently, Dascha composed the music for the series The Interpreter of Silence on Disney+ and Golda (starring Helen Mirren), directed by Guy Nattiv which premiered in February 2023 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Dascha has continued her collaboration with Nattiv, having scored the music for the film TATAMI which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival 2023.

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