LACAZE Sophie

Winner of several international competitions (Italy, Romania, UK), she has also been awarded the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs (2009) and the SACEM Claude ARRIEU prize (2010).

Sophie Lacaze has forged a personal and original aesthetic that seeks to restore to music its original vocations, such as ritual, incantation and dance, its links with nature, and in which timbre holds a central place. It was during a long stay in Australia that she discovered the culture of the Aborigines. Since then, a return to the very essence of musical art, to its fundamental purity, has seemed essential to her.

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Compositions

Biography

After graduating in engineering, Sophie Lacaze turned to music. After graduating in composition from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, she continued her studies in Italy with Franco Donatoni (composition) and Ennio Morricone (film music) at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena. She also took classes with Pierre Boulez at the Collège de France, and studied musical theater with Georges Aperghis at the Centre Acanthes. In 2002, she was invited to Australia for a several-month residency at the Electronic Music Unit of the University of Adelaide.

Winner of several international competitions (Italy, Romania, UK), she has also been awarded the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs (2009) and the Prix Claude ARRIEU de la SACEM (2010). In 2012, she won the Beaumarchais-SACD association prize.

In 2022, her catalog includes over 70 works, from solo pieces to orchestral works, including two chamber operas and mixed works, performed in over twenty countries. Performers include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Orchestre de Perpignan Méditerranée, the Orchestre national d’Auvergne, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK), I Solisti Veneti (Italy), the Orchestra Națională Radio and the Orchestra Filarmonica Mihail Jora (Romania), the Orquesta de Cámara PUCV (Chile), the Orchestre de Flûtes Français, the Orchestre des Petites Mains Symphoniques, …

His music is also featured on a dozen CDs (France, Germany, Romania, Australia, USA), including three monographs, and has been the subject of numerous articles and a documentary produced by Mezzo TV (2012). In 2018, the book “Sophie Lacaze, portrait d’une compositrice – dialogues with Geneviève Mathon” was published by Editions Delatour. The English version will be published in May 2021.

Sophie Lacaze has forged a personal and original aesthetic that seeks to restore to music its original vocations, such as ritual, incantation and dance, its links with nature, and in which timbre holds a central place. It was during a long stay in Australia that she discovered the culture of the Aborigines. Since then, a return to the very essence of musical art, to its fundamental purity, has seemed essential to her.

Sophie Lacaze is regularly invited to give conferences and masterclasses on her music (France, Belgium, Australia, etc.). She is an associate professor at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier and artistic director of the Musiques démesurées festival in Clermont-Ferrand.

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Sophie Lacaze

Éditions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Sophie Lacaze has been named Femme de Culture 2023. This event aims to highlight the inspiring and creative voices of French-speaking women […]

Events

30

Mar

2024

Sophie Lacaze

Réminiscences (for viola) Musée de l’Homme – Paris Karine Lethiec – viola read more

16

Mar

2024

Sophie Lacaze

Premiere – L’Étoffe inépuisable du Rêve chamber opera Théâtre des variétés – Monaco – 8pm Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain Els Janssens – mezzo-soprano Xavier de Lignerolles – tenor Romain Dayez – […]

09

Mar

2024

Sophie Lacaze

Réminiscences (for solo viola) Musée de l’Homme – Paris – 11h15 Karine Lethiec – viola read more

13

Jan

2024

Sophie Lacaze

premiere  Réminiscences (for solo viola) by Karine Lethiec at the Musée de l’Homme as part of Ensemble Calliopée’s “Voyage archeo musical” project at the heart of the Prehistomania exhibition at […]

03

Jan

2024

Sophie Lacaze

O Sapientia broadcast on France Musique’s Le Concert du Soir program by Mora VocisCaroline Marçot, Céline Boucard, Els Janssens Vanmunster, Isabelle Deproit, voices read more