Dobrawa Czocher grew up in a musical family and started playing the cello at the age of 7. She soon became inseparable from the instrument and decided to dedicate her life to music. She is a graduate of two renowned music academies: At the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, she studied in the class of Professor Piotr Hausenplas and at the Detmold Academy of Music with Professor Alexander Gebert. Czocher has won prizes at several solo and chamber music competitions and has taken part in numerous international masterclasses and music festivals.
Between 2008 and 2010, she was a scholarship holder of the National Fund for Children. In 2017, Czocher became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and in September of the same year, she became principal cellist of the Neue Philharmonie Berlin. She has been principal cellist of the Szczecin Symphony Orchestra since 2018. Czocher has performed in many prestigious concert halls in Poland and abroad, including in Germany, Lebanon, Serbia, Austria, Turkey, Portugal, Great Britain and many other countries.
As a musician, Czocher loves to expand the sound spectrum of the cello and to oscillate between classical and contemporary music. Her long career as an award-winning chamber and orchestral musician means that she is comfortable mixing philharmonic music with alternative approaches. Her great talent lies in combining perfect cello technique with boundless imagination and expressiveness. She has been working with her good friend, pianist Hania Rani, for many years. In 2015, they released the album "Biala Flaga" with their arrangements of the music of Polish rock star Grzegorz Ciechowski, which brought them their first success and led to the even more ambitious "Inner Symphonies", released by Deutsche Grammophon. With her friend Hior Chronik, she has played at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen (Netherlands), among others. Dobrawa's motto is to never stop growing, and last year she once again lived up to this motto when she started composing her own music. One of her pieces, entitled "Timelines", was included in "Project XII" and released by the legendary Deutsche Grammophon. Her first solo album "Dreamscapes" was released on 27 January by BMG / Modern Recordings.