Nominations / Awards

Sophie Søs Meyer receives the Sonning Talent Prize

Every year, the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation awards a number of talent prizes to young composers, conductors, musicians, or singers. Sophie Søs Meyer is among this year's recipients.

Sophie Søs Meyer is highlighted as a composer who does not fit into a narrow box. She is a musical adventurer who has journeyed from the folk music of her childhood on Fanø to composition studies in Iceland and Estonia, with detours into fields such as Byzantine paleography and Javanese gamelan. Music has always been her companion, but it has changed form and meaning over the years.

In a video interview, she talks about her path into classical music and composing.

For Sophie Søs Meyer, composing is not about being original at any cost, but about creating connections – between times, voices, and traditions. “All music is built on what came before. One note builds on the next, just as musical traditions build upon one another. I see myself more as someone who compiles and rediscovers than someone who invents from scratch,” she explains.

On the occasion of Sophie Søs Meyer receiving the Talent Prize, harpist Zachary Hatcher has recorded her work Schatten Rosen Schatten.

Sophie Søs Meyer: Schatten Rosen Schatten performed by Zachary Hatcher

Read more about Sophie Søs Meyer, and the other recipients of the Léonie Sonning Talent Prizes 2025 here.