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Ania is an award-winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and artist who works and collaborates across a range of disciplines. She speaks four languages and has presented her original music and work across five continents. As a composer, she is interested in the power of music as a story-teller, conveying narrative and emotion. Her audiovisual work explores the relationship between music and moving image, and her sound art/installation work seeks to uncover the extraordinary within the seemingly ordinary.
Ania's audiovisual work Audible Lockdown (created in collaboration with Carl Polke for the Australian Music Centre's 2020 Peggy G;anville-Hicks Commissions) won the Best Short Film Award at the 2021 Experimental, Dance and Music Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) and received an Honorable Mention as a semi-finalist in the Prague International Indie Film Festival. Ania and Carl are currently working on a remote artist residency program with the Centre Culturel d'Ambronay, France, as part of the Odyssée Programme International de Résidences d'Artistes.
Ania was an Artist In Residence with cultural organisation Despina in Rio de Janeiro in July 2019, creating and exhibiting the audio installation Música De Coco, the first in her This City This Sound composition series.
She produces original electronic music as artist Synthotronica, releasing her debut solo album UFORIK in 2019. Her track DAFNE was short-listed as a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition 2019. As a solo pianist, Ania has performed at venues ranging from Iwaki Auditorium to Brussels Airport, and performs regularly around Melbourne, including at experimental music night The Make It Up Club.
Ania co-scored Vanessa White’s video works Salt Lake, Saint Sixte Chapel, and 23 Degrees West, and collaborated with Jamie Lewis on interactive audio performance works Tropical Kitchen 1 and 2 (Darwin Festival 2017, Darwin Fringe 2018) and Plenty (ACE Gallery, Adelaide).
She works as the Musical Director for Yothu Yindi And The Treaty Project, producing original music in collaboration with First Nations artists and performing at events including Bluesfest, Commonwealth Games Festival 2018, and Homeground Festival.
Ania worked with Circus Oz for ten years, including six as Musical Director, performing and touring with productions Model Citizens, TwentySixteen, But Wait…There’s More!, Close To The Bone, Steampowered, and From The Ground Up. International performances include Tollwood Winter Festival 2018; Teatro Circo Price Madrid; La TOHU Montreal; The New Victory Theatre New York; Bucaramanga and Bogotá, Colombia; Xuzhou, China and the Australia Now Festival Sao Paolo, in addition to numerous national and international tours, and tours to remote communities including Arnhem Land. She works frequently with Torres Strait Island choreographer Ghenoa Gela, composing the scores to Winds of Woerr (2014), My Urrwai (2018) and Fragments of Malungoka (recipient of the 2016 Keir Choreographic Award), and is currently working on Lak Malual Paru with Force Majeure. She has worked extensively with Polyglot Theatre on productions including Stop That House, Checkout, We Built This City, The Big Game and Tangle; and Arena Theatre on productions Air Race, Trapper, Flock and Robot Song (recipient of the 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Production for Young People).
In 2017 Ania participated in the creative development of What Am I Worth, a new work for D/deaf, disabled and non-disabled artists by UK integrated circus company Extraordinary Bodies at the National Theatre in London. She was a guest artist for the initial development of Epifonima by Cirkus Cirkor in Stockholm. In 2016 she composed, devised and performed music with Arcadia Winds as part of the Musica Viva Future Makers program.
In 2011, she won a Green Room Award for Best Musical Direction in Cabaret for her role in Yana Alana And Tha Paranas In Concert. Other credits include work with Asphyxia (The Grimstones), NICA and the Flying Fruit Fly Circus; improvisational performance Man On A Bike With A Piano at White Night Geelong 2018; and community theatre projects Too Many Mirandas at Hanging Rock (2018); The Hamilton Olympic Games (2009) and The Bonegilla Migrant Experience (2005).
Ania has toured and performed with artists including Femi Kuti and Toni Childs. In 2019, she led a band of local musicians for the Honk! Festival in Rio de Janeiro, and performs regularly with Melbourne bands Alarìíya, Johnnie and the Johnnie Johnnies, Los Cojones and The Whoopee Project.