Carla Dobbie is a Gadigal/Sydney-based composer, orchestrator, and arranger. Originally a jazz trombonist trained at the Sydney Conservatorium, they then received a Masters of Arts Screen Music at the Australian Film Radio and Television School, and have since been working in film and video games. Dobbie works alongside the Valheim composer Patrik Jarlestam and Malin Håkansson as part of SolidSounds Audio Productions, a Swedish/Australian Music, Sound Design, and Voice-Over production house.

Having played in different bands on trombone since the age of 11, Dobbie is well-versed in many styles including jazz, classical, musical theatre, salsa, bossa-nova, samba, electronic music and more. Despite having an injury that stopped them playing trombone in 2020, they happily bring their expertise in live-music to give an idiomatic flair to all of their scores and orchestrations. Since their injury, their work has premiered and features around the country at SXSW (AUS), Adelaide Film Festival (AUS), the Sydney Opera House, and internationally at CineQuest (USA) and on all major gaming consoles for different game studios.

Specialising in creating unique and eclectic music worlds for projects, they have gained composer credits in different genres of shorts, most notably in their operatic/tango score from Set Menu (2024). They also blend different genres of music as a co-lead composer with Patrik Jarlestam in the Far Out Games/Konami title Deliver At All Costs, which features a 100 minute score with a blend of big band, jazz, country, and classical genres.

Dobbie has worked with and learned from some of Australia’s finest, including; Cameron Patrick, Greg Wise, Andrew Robertson, Sandy Evans, James Greening, Ellen Kirkwood, Mohammad Awad (3Awadi), Hinano Fujisaki, and Miles Rooney. They were also granted placement at the APRA SongHubs Screen Composer Workshop (2024) and mentored by award-winning composer Caitlin Yeo.