Sophie Meyer │ composer

published by Edition S

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InstagramSophie Meyer works from a sense of being within a landscape of people, history, tradition, nature and sounds – a landscape where her music is already present before she intervenes. In her work, tradition plays an important role as an immediate sense of community and connectedness – an emotional fusion of multiple relations across time and space. Her ambition is to take this energy of her own cosmological longing for connectedness and translate it into music that others can listen to. She strives not to answer any questions, but rather to put her own questions into music.

When she composes, she often starts from a visual element that works as a prism to create components, which she transforms into sound. In Sophie Meyer’s creative process, her most important method is to listen and fully immerse herself in the material in search for a new layer of music. To her, composing is about staying curious to the world and to her own music as something she can touch, awaken and let live its own life – a life which oftentimes surprises even herself.

She has received the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize (2025), the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize (2023) and has received commissions from Voix Nouvelles Royaumont (2023) and the DYCE Commissioning Project (2022).

Find selection of scores at: 
https://edition-s.dk/composers/sophie-meyer