# Anaya Kunst

Anaya Kunst is a Brazilian composer, filmmaker and music producer. Her instrumental music has been described as new-age and electronic, and she has won numerous awards including Global Music Awards, Clouzine International Music Awards, and was nominated for an Independent Music Award and Hollywood Music in Media Award, among others. As a music video and short film producer and director, she won Best Original Music, Best Director, and Best Women Filmmaker for Dragons Gate at the Critics Choice International Film Festival as well as receiving awards by Beyond the Curve International Film Festival (Paris, France), the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival, the Swedish International Film Festival, and others.

## Early life and education

Kunst was born Tania Mara Botelho in São Paulo, Brazil. She learned to play the piano at 9 years old and guitar at 15 years old as well as studying ballet and gymnastics. She is a trained opera singer and studied at Conservatorio with Carlos Gomez. She holds a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a doctorate degree from Loughborough University of Technology in England, and a post doctorate degree from Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

## Career

Kunst composes, performs, produces, and directs under the names Anaya Kunst and also Anaya Music. She plays the piano, guitar, flute, and saxophone and has won numerous music awards as well as international film awards for film shorts and music videos.
Kunst has won numerous awards for her work in music and film including the Critics Choice International Film Festival Awards where she won Best Original Music, Best Director, and Best Women Filmmaker for Dragons Gate and won Best Female New Age Artist at the Indie Music Channel Awards. In 2020, she was nominated for a Peace Song Award for her spoken word song, Let Peace Be (co-written with Cindy Paulos).
Kunst has released 11 full-length studio albums which have received favorable reviews. Her music combines elements of instruments, technology, and electronic music and is recorded with A$_4$ tuned down to 432 Hz, a controversial frequency that some believe has healing powers. Kunst is featured on the Sounds From The Circle VI compilation album by Suzanne Doucet.
In 2018, Kunst's album, AONKI - Gateway of Love, was recorded and performed virtually in Prague with musicians from the Czech Philharmonic. She has worked with Gonzaguinha and Ivan Lins, whom she has performed with at several events.

## Discography

* 2011 - Cosmic Light
* 2013 - Skywalker in the Universe
* 2013 - Aligned in the Universe
* 2014 - Devotion
* 2015 - Fifth Essence
* 2016 - Eternity
* 2018 - Aonki - Gateway of Love
* 2019 - Isalc"Li: A Love Odyssey
* 2020 - Beyond Earth
* 2021 - Rising Sun
* 2022 - Self Music
* 2022 - Ascension

## Music Awards

* 2017 - Global Music Award - Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement New Age - Love's River
* 2017 - Global Music Award - Best Composer Award - Dharma
* 2018 - Independent Music Awards (IMAs) - Nominated Best Album - Eternity
* 2018 - Clouzine International Music Awards - Best New Age Album - Aonki: A Gateway of Lover
* 2019 - Clouzine International Music Award - Best New Age Album - Aligned in the Universe
* 2019 - Clouzine International Electronic Music Award - Best Album - 4D Eternity
* 2019 - Indie Music Channel Award - Best Female New Age Artist
* 2020 - Hollywood Music in Media Awards Nominated Best New Age/Ambient - Breath
* 2020 - Global Song Peace Awards - Best Spoken Word - Let Peace Be (written by Anaya Music and Cindy Paulos)

## Film shorts and music video awards

* 2022 - Critics Choice International Film Festival - Best Original Music, Best Director, and Best Women Filmmaker for Dragons Gate
* 2020 - New Wave Film Festival (Munich, Germany) - Best Song - Dreams
* 2020 - Royal Wolf Film Awards - Best Original Music Score - Immortal
* 2021 - New Wave Film Festival (Munich, Germany) - Best Song Award - Dreams
* 2021 - Beyond the Curve International Film Festival (Paris, France) - Best Original Music - Love
* 2021 - Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival - Best Music Video and Best Music Track - Ascension To Love'
* 2021 - Swedish International Film Festival - Best Original Music - Timing
* 2021 - Red Movie Awards - Best Production Design - Immortal
* 2021 - Accolade Global Film Competition Award (USA)- Best Original Song - Breath