Sophie has played the violin since she was 4 years old, growing up in a very musical home in Germany. At nine she played her first solo concerto with orchestra and continued as a soloist with concertos from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Vivaldi and Mozart. At 14 she was accepted in the Junior Department of the College of Music in Trossingen, Germany where she finished her Bachelor of Music and Masters in Performance earlier than most students in February 2009 with Prof. Riza Yildiz. She also won the College Competition’s first prize. In that time she studied abroad for one year in San Francisco with a Fulbright Scholarship.
Sophie is very interested in orchestral playing and has been able to lead many orchestras: the Karlsruher Jugend Sinfonieorchester, the College Orchestra in Trossingen and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra amongst others. At 18 she attended her first international Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. She also attended the Tanglewood Music Center (Summer Academy of the Boston Symphony) in 2008 and was re-invited for the summer in 2009. Sophie is now studying at the Royal College of Music (Artist Diploma in Performance) with Prof. Berent Korfker alongside her work with Southbank Sinfonia.
Sophie lives in Brockley and in her spare time enjoys many opera performances at the Royal Opera House in London. One of her passions is designing and making clothes, and she has created her own concert dresses for most of her solo performances.
