Sophie Søs Meyer works from a sense of being within a landscape of people, history, tradition, nature, spirits 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 Søs 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.
Sophie Søs Meyer is currently pursuing soloist studies in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Marcela Lucatelli, Niels Rønsholt, and Juliana Hodkinson. She holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, where she studied with Helena Tulve, and a Bachelor's degree in violin from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where she studied with Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider.
Her works have been performed by leading ensembles, including ICTUS Ensemble, Ensemble Fractales, ensemble court-circuit and YXUS Ensemble, and presented at international festivals such as Klang Festival and Heroines of Sound. 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).
