SoFlyA

Sophie grew up near Toulouse, performing with chamber groups and "Toulouse chamber orchestra " and eventually winning a chamber music competition before moving to Lille at the age of 21. She started to travel to Paris every week and soon changed residence again. After living in Lille for a year to prepare her studies for the 'Conservatoire' in Paris, she passed the entry-exams and stayed in the French capital for three years where she also began encountering jazz and funk music in several bands. After winning 1st prize in the Conservatory's bassoon-competition Sophie went on to spend a year in Berlin. She landed in Munich where She followed one in Superior Studies in Marco Postinghel's class (/soloist Bayerish Rundfunk Orchester) This where she took a turn in musical direction and began to seriously work on jazz-improvisation ,composition and vocal jazz.. her wide-ranged, but strong musicality was received enthuastically by reknown musicians who integrated her into bands like 'Metisse' (/w Paulo Cardoso) 'The Magic of Brossa' (/w Wanja Slavin) and Das Rote Gras (/w Karsten Hochapfel) She decided to go back Berlin where she plays,writes and sings in several projects from jazz to free improvisation ,from electonic to experimental music.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4