After graduating Cum Laude from the Royal Conservatory in Liège (class of Toon Fret) and Fontys School for Arts in Tilburg (class of Valerie Debaele), Sofia became lecturer at the chamber music department of the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where she teaches up to this day in the class of Vincent Royer.
Sofia is laureate from the ‘Dexia Classics’, “National Flute Competition for Students” in Ittevoort and the “Classical Academy”, which she won in 2016. This allowed her to perform as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège in 2016 (“d minor concerto” - CPE Bach) directed by Christian Arming and in 2017 (“House Music” – Matthew Hindson) directed by Julien Masmodet.
In 2018, she was the classical artist for the “Zaventem Promst”, where she performed Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise” and Jethro Tull’s “Bourée” with the Vlaams-Brabant Symphony orchestra. This is also the year when Sofia became principal flutist at the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra, for projects like Night of the Proms (with Toto, Anastacia, Kool and the Gang, Supertramp, …) and gala concerts with Andréa Bocelli, amongst others.
Besides her career as a soloist, Sofia is most passionate about playing chamber music and contemporary music. With her colleagues, she founded the Hopper Ensemble, an ensemble specialized in actual music and she regularly plays in Spectra and Oxalys, both renowned chamber music ensembles.
Sofia co-created with Trio Philomèle a musical children’s show that mixes contemporary music for flute, harp and narrator of Lionel Bord and Hans Christian Andersen’s tale the “Nightingale”. She also premiered several contemporary pieces and is regularly invited to give electro-acoustic concerts at, for example, the Festival Images Sonores.
In 2021, Sofia got a research scholarship from the FRart (FNRS) with which she conducted a one-year artistic research on contemporary flute techniques. The goal of this research was to elaborate new techniques or even new ways of using the flute, due to a comprehension of the functioning acoustic of the flute and its already existing extended techniques. As a result, Sofia developed new ways of playing the flute and 4 pieces were composed for this occasion by Maija Hynninen, Lukas Ligeti, François Couvreur and Denis Geerts.
Sofia gives lectures on this subject and workshops for flutists and composers. She was published twice and there is currently another article on the way, which will come out in January 2024.
