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. Sophie has been dividing her time between Europe and Australia for several years.
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.
She also recorded a CD with Pierre-Yves Artaud (to be released beginning of 2008).
Her music is performed in leading festivals throughout France, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Romania, Ukrainia, Lithuania, Brazil, USA, Japan, in
England, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, 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), musicians of the Orchestre National de Lyon, Arcadie Flute Quartet, Trio a Cordes de Paris, Benaim String Quartet, Trio 3D, Durufle, Helios, Triton II, Phoenix, Prokontra and Aujourd'hui Musiques Ensembles, Canberra New Music Ensemble and the trio Settembrini (Australia), Aperto Trio and Pro Contemporania Ensemble (Romania), Pierre-Yves Artaud,
Véronique Bauer, Ivan Bellocq, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Jean-Claude Gerard, Baudoin Giaux, Daniel Isoir, Daniel
Kientzy, Marie Kobayashi, Aino Lund, Kiyoko Okada, Christel Rayneau, Regis Roy, Gabriella
Smart, Chiharu Tachibana, Fuminori Tanada, Francoise Vanhecke, Stephen Whittington.
Sophie's music was noticed at several international composition competitions:
- "Comme une rue pavée ", trio for violin, clarinet and piano, was selected at the Aperto competition (Romania) in 1999 to feature on the first CD by Aperto Trio - Aperto (Re)forms,
- "Ave Maris Stella" for choir, was prize-winner at the International Competition organized for the Celebrations of Santa Brigida in Roma (Italy) in 2002,
- "happy birthday OSO", was prize-winner at the 3rd International Composition Competition for String Orchestra of the Oare String Orchestra (UK) in 2003.
Besides, "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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