About Dosia McKay

Dosia McKay’s composition portfolio includes scores for film, dance, and multimedia, works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, symphony orchestra, as well as synthesized sound. A versatile writer, Dosia fluently weaves elements of classical harmony, jazz, pop, avant-garde, ambient soundscapes, and the lyricism of folk melodies of her native Poland.

Recent projects include “Farewell Dream Garden” for soprano, flute, and string orchestra which won the second prize in the International “Music in the Garden” Composers’ Competition Wroclaw/Kraków 2010/2011, premiered in Poland by The Orpheus Orchestra, “Unveiling”, a work for string orchestra premiered by the North/South Consonance in New York City, an original score to “The Work is One” (2011), a documentary by Michelle Pomeroy, an original score to “The Bubble Tree”, an animated film by Ran Jing, winner of the Skirball Competition, premiered by the New York University Symphony Orchestra, and co-writing a score to a Catalan silent film “Gent I Paisatge de Catalunya” (1926) screened at the 2010 Washington International Film Festival.

Dosia McKay’s music has been featured in New York, Poland, Spain, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the East Tennessee State University, King College in Bristol, TN, Southeastern Composers League’s Forum at the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, College Music Society’s Southern Chapter conference at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, and University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Dosia was born and raised in Poland. At the age of nine she began her music studies at the Elementary School of Music in Wejherowo concentrating on classical guitar, flute, and piano, and continued her education at the Conservatory of Music in Gda?sk majoring in flute performance under Ewa Pinno and Katarzyna Wittschenbach.

In 1991 Dosia came to California to join the Celebrant Singers, a vocal ensemble accompanied by a big band, with whom she traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, and Albania, playing the flute. She has also been a freelance artist concentrating on chamber, orchestral, and studio music.

Dosia holds M.M. in Scoring for Film and Multimedia from New York University where she studied composition with Marc-Antonio Consoli, Ira Newborn, and Rich Shemaria, and B.M. in Composition from University of Tennessee where she studied with Kenneth A. Jacobs and James R. Carlson. She is a member of the Society of Composers, the American Composers Forum, the Independent Filmmaker Project, and ASCAP. Her music is published by Gavia Music.

A Renaissance woman at heart, Dosia is also a flutist, a visual artist, and a poet. She divides her time between New York and Asheville.

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