Biography
Ana was born in Batumi, Georgia.
At the age of six, she began studying the piano and violin. Ana wrote her first piano piece at the same age, inspired by a picture.
She recently scored the Georgian miniseries "Invisible Game," which was directed by Giorgi Kadagidze and Soso Bliadze.
In 2020, she received the World Soundtrack Awards SABAM Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer. Ana is the first female composer to receive the award.
Ana won the second edition of the International Soundtrack Composition Award, which is presented by Juan Gil Family Estates and offers the world's greatest award for a contest of this type. Patrick Doyle chaired the jury. The Film Symphony Orchestra performed the winning composition "The True Treasure" at the Auditorio Victor Villegas in Murcia.
In 2017, Ana was selected to attend the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles. During the month-long event, she recorded and performed her 3-minute cue for Scott Derrickson's "Doctor Strange" with a 64-piece orchestra at the renowned FOX Newman Scoring Stage.
Ana received the Howard Shore scholarship in 2014 to attend Berklee College of Music's Valencia Campus. She graduated from Berklee with a Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games. Ana got the opportunity to record her music at Abbey Road Studios with a 51-piece orchestra as well as the Budapest Art Orchestra while studying.
The Berklee Faculty of Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games chose her to receive the Outstanding Scholar Award (G'15).
Ana won the Composer of the Year award at the California Independent Film Festival (CAIFF) Film Scoring Competition in 2015 for scoring the eight-minute film 'Bridgebuilders'.
Ana Kasrashvili is a member of ASCAP, the World Soundtrack Academy, and the Alliance of Women Film Composers.