Carla Dobbie is a Gadigal/Sydney-based composer and orchestrator for video games and film. They primarily work at the Swedish/Australian audio production house Solid Sounds alongside composer Patrik Jarlestam, responsible for the music and sound of video games like Valheim (2019, Iron Gate/Coffee Stain Studios) and Deliver At All Costs (2025, Far Out Games/Konami). 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 their Masters of Screen Music at AFTRS (2023). They have experience in a variety of musical settings including big band swing, orchestral music, salsa, bossa, electronic music, musical theatre, fusion, and pop. They bring their experience and idiomatic knowledge of genre to their work for screen, and utilising it 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 across Australia, Europe, and the USA at various film festivals and on 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.

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