Biography
Ana Kasrashvili, born in Batumi, Georgia, began studying piano and violin at six. That same year, she composed her first piano piece, inspired by a picture.
She recently scored the Georgian miniseries Invisible Game, produced by Cavea+.
In 2020, Ana became the first female composer to win the World Soundtrack Awards SABAM Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer.
She also won the International Soundtrack Composition Award, presented by Juan Gil Family Estates and judged by Patrick Doyle, for her piece The True Treasure, which was performed by the Film Symphony Orchestra in Murcia, Spain.
In 2017, she attended the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles, recording a cue for Doctor Strange with a 64-piece orchestra at the FOX Newman Scoring Stage.
Ana received the Howard Shore Scholarship in 2014 to study at Berklee College of Music's Valencia Campus, earning a Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games. At Berklee, she recorded music at Abbey Road Studios and with the Budapest Art Orchestra and received the Outstanding Scholar Award (G’15).
She won Composer of the Year at the California Independent Film Festival (CAIFF) Film Scoring Competition in 2015 for scoring Bridgebuilders.
Ana has been actively involved in orchestration projects while also focusing on songwriting as well.