Carla Dobbie is a Gadigal/Sydney-based composer and orchestrator for video games and film. From 2021-2026 they worked as a lead composer and sound designer for video games at the Swedish/Australian audio production house Solid Sounds. Through this time, Dobbie gained lead-composer credits on Deliver At All Costs (2025, Far Out Games/Konami), and the newly-announced Lego Skylines (Iceflake/Paradox), as well as co-composer credit on Valheim - Deep North (2021, Iron Gate/Coffee Stain Studios), and various other titles. Independently Dobbie is also known for their work on short films like Set Menu (2024, dir. McDonald), Flight Risk (2025, dir. Awad), and Buttercream (2025, dir. Bennet).

Raised as a jazz and classical trombonist, Dobbie earned their Bachelor of Music Studies in Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium (2020) and studied composition doing the Masters of Screen Music at AFTRS (2023). They have experience in a variety of musical settings including big band swing, modern orchestral music, salsa, bossa, electronic music, musical theatre, fusion, and pop. They bring their idiomatic knowledge of genre to their work for screen, as showcased in their operatic/tango score for Set Menu, the Maltese Folk/Indie-pop score for Buttercream, and the jazz/country/classical 100 minute score for the game Deliver At All Costs (2025). Their scores have been heard at film festivals and major gaming consoles worldwide.

Dobbie has been mentored by some of Australia’s greatest, including Cameron Patrick, Andrew Robertson, and Sandy Evans. They were mentored by award-winning screen composer Caitlin Yeo at the APRA SongHubs Screen Composer Workshop in 2024, awarded Best Composer at the LA Independent Woman Film Awards 2025, and was a finalist for the APRA Professional Development Award 2026 in Screen Composition.

Passionate about education and access, they have also given talks about game and film music at the Sydney Conservatorium, the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the Powerhouse Museum’s ALT: GAMES Festival 2026, and at Stockholm’s Audio Production Academy.

Dobbie is against the use of generative AI or other LLM systems in the production of musical/creative works, and does not use such systems.