Biography
Composer Sophie Lacaze was born in Lourdes (France) in 1963. After her musical studies at the Conservatoire National de Region de Toulouse (France), she went on to further studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris (France), where she received the Composition Prize. Afterwards, she studied with Allain Gaussin, Antoine Tisne and Philippe Manoury in France, and with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena (Italy). She also engaged in music theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Centre Acanthes, attended Pierre Boulez's courses in College de France, studied singing with Kiyoko Okada and Jane Edwards, and theatre with Domenico Carrino.
She is now developing a partnership with music ensembles and soloists, and also with primary schools to introduce children to contemporary music.
In 2007, the Trio à Cordes de Paris premiered her string trio "Iotife" for its 40th anniversary concert, les Rencontres Musicales ProQuartet in Fontainebleau organized a « Sophie Lacaze special day » with three of her works and especially the premiere of her string quartet "Het Lam Gods", and she was guest composer of the Son MiRe Festival, that programmed all of her works for solo instrument and tape.
In 2008, SOLAL (Germany) published her CD "Sophie Lacaze - works with flutes" (soloist: Pierre-Yves Artaud),
for which she was awarded the Grand Prix Lyceen des Compositeurs 2009.
Several works were also premiered in 2008, such as "Het Lam Gods II", by Pierre-Yves Artaud and the Orchestre de Flutes Francais (conductor Carmen Carnuci), "Quatre haïkus" for alt-saxophone and piano, by Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Marylise Fourmeau, and her "1er concerto pour piano" by Daniel Isoir and the Nouvel Orchestre de Chambre de Rouen (conductor Joachim Leroux).
Sophie also wrote music for Antoine de Saint Exupery's "Petit Prince"',
in a production by Alain Carre in Geneva (Switzerland).
In 2009, she especially worked with musicians of the Orchestre National de Lyon and children of a primary school in Lyon for the "chantiers de la creation". In 2010, Florian Lauridon premiered her "Variations sur quatre haikus" for cello during a concert of the Itineraire Ensemble in Paris, and her new work for narrator and flute orchestra: "L'espace et la flute - Variations sur des textes de Jean Tardieu" was premiered by Alain Carre and the Orchestre de Flutes Francais (conductor Paul Mefano) in RadioFrance.
Sophie's music is performed in leading festivals throughout France, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Spain, Poland, Romania, Ukrainia, Lithuania, Serbia, Greece, Brazil, USA, Japan, South Korea, in
England, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, by distinguished ensembles
and artists such as the Orchestre de Perpignan - Mediterranee and
the Camerata de France (conductor Daniel Tosi), "Mihail Jora" Philarmonic
Orchestra (conductor Ovidiu Balan), Roumanian Radio Orchestra (conductor Horia Andreescu), Nouvel Orchestre de Chambre de Rouen (conductor Joachim Leroux), Orchestre de Flutes Francais (conductor
Pierre-Alain Biget), Choeur Calliope (conductor Regine Theodoresco), Appoggiature vocal ensemble (conductor Eliette Roche), musicians of the Orchestre National de Lyon, Arcadie Flute Quartet, Trio a Cordes de Paris, Benaim String Quartet, Trio 3D, Durufle, Helios, Phoenix, Piano & Compagnie, Pleiade, Prokontra and Aujourd'hui Musiques Ensembles, Hinemoa Flute Ensemble (Belgium), Canberra New Music Ensemble and the trio Settembrini (Australia), Aperto Trio and Pro Contemporania Ensemble (Romania), Pierre-Yves Artaud,
Ivan Bellocq, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Jean-Claude Gerard, Baudoin Giaux, Daniel Isoir, Daniel
Kientzy, Marie Kobayashi, Aino Lund, Nathalie Negro, Kiyoko Okada, Nadia Ratsimandresy, Christel Rayneau, Gabriella
Smart, Chiharu Tachibana, Fuminori Tanada, Francoise Vanhecke, Stephen Whittington.
Several works were noticed at international composition competitions, and "Voyelles" and "Trois melodies" were the subject of conferences by Patrick Quillier in Berlin (Germany) and Nice (France) in his cycle of conferences about "Music and Poetry in France in the 20th century".
Sophie is regularly invited to give master-classes or conferences (Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Barossa Music Festival -
Australia; IUFM in Tarbes, CNR in Versailles, CRR in Rouen - France; Conservatoire Royal in Brussels - Belgium). She teaches composition and orchestration, and is also managing director of the Centre de Pratique Musicale in Annecy (France).
Unsubdued but attentive to musical trends and schools, Sophie Lacaze has developed an original aesthetics that takes into account the current research on sound while looking to restore music its primary functions, ie ritual, incantation, dance, and its links with nature.
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