A b o u t
A versatile young singer, acclaimed for her "rich and velvet-like low register" , Sophia appeared the last season both as a soloist and as ensemble member in international stages and festivals some of which are the Auditorium de Lyon, Grand Opera d'Avignon, Opera de Dijon, Philharmonie de Paris, Ambronay Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Elbphilarmonie in Cologne, Göttingen International Handel Festspiele, Heinrich Schütz Musikfest of Dresden Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Ljubljana Early Music Festival, Stockholm Early Music Festival, International Bach Chamber Music Festival of Riga, Latvia, Opera Noord Holland etc.
Future solo engagements include, between others, her first collaboration with the Greek National Opera
(Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή) in which she will perform the part of Ozias in the production Juditha Triumphans - Vivaldi (April 2021), under the baton of Markellos Chryssicos with the stage direction of Thanos Papakonstantinou.
As a soloist she has worked in Opera productions, Oratorio, Romantic & Early music concerts
around the world working with conductors such as Ton Koopman, Gabriel Garrido, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Barbara Hannigan, Valery Gergiev, Markellos Chryssicos, Davide Pozzi, Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel, Quentin Clare, Matthias Pintcher, Richard Egarr, Andres Locatelli, Alfredo Bernandini, Sigiswald Kuijken, Marcus Creed and more performing roles such as Messaggera & Speranza (L'Orfeo-Monteverdi), Ericlea (Il ritorno d'Ulisse-Monteverdi) , Arnalta & Nutrice (L'incoronazione di Poppea-Monteverdi), Sleep & Autumn (Fairy Queen - Purcell), Zita (Gianni Schicchi - Puccini), Dido & Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas - Purcell), Irene (Theodora-Handel), Bradamante (Alcina-Handel), 3rd lady (Die Zauberflöte - Mozart), Baba the Turk (Rake's progress-Stravinsky).
(Full repertoire performed at the end of the page)
Sophia collaborates with numerous european
Ensembles such as :
the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Musica Temprana,
Nederlands Bachvereniging, Amsterdam Baroque,
Cappella Amsterdam (NL),
La Venexiana, Accademia d'Arcadia (IT),
Les Traversées Baroques (FR),
Servir Antico (CH),
Latinitas Nostra, Ensemble 1619 (GR).
In recording Sophia is to be heard as a soloist in
Muy hermosa es Maria (Musica Temprana - Adrian Rodriguez van Der Spoel) , Nova Europa (Seconda Pratica - Jonatan Alvarado & Nuno Atalaia), Celesti Fiori (Accademia d'Arcadia - Alessandra Rossi) , Le Temple et le desir (Ensemble Elyma - Gabriel Garrido), Christmas in Naples (Ensemble Odyssee - Andrea Friggi).
Future recordings are taking place in June 2021 when she will record In Memoria Mea (Seconda Pratica + Rebecca Stewart) and in October 2021 the program Giostra dell'Amore (La Lyra - Bor Zuljan).
Sophia has been awarded in competitions (2nd prize in the 21st National Singing Competition in Greece, finalist in the Maria Callas scholarship on 2009, audience prize in the Prix d’Harmonie competition in Rotterdam 2010) and has been a K. Kyriacopoulos scholar for the period 2009-2012 and a Sweelinckfonds scholar for the year 2013-2014
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in a family of musicians, Sophia obtained her Bachelors degree with highest honours in Classical Singing and Opera in the State Conservatory of her hometown on 2009 in the class of the bass, Nikos Kapetas.
Passionate and completely dedicated to music and the art of singing she decided to continue her studies abroad starting in Germany where she studied for a year with prof. Cheryl Studer.
Later, Sophia, moved to the Netherlands and followed double training: Historical Performance singing under the guidance of mezzo-soprano Xenia Meijer and Classical Singing under the guidance of Valerie Guillorit towards a Masters degree.
Currently she's coached by Angela Brower & Xenia Meijer.
OPERA AND ORATORIO REPERTOIRE
Monteverdi
L'Orfeo -
Messaggera, Speranza, Proserpina
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria - Penelope, Ericlea
L'incoronazione di Poppea -Ottavia, Arnalta, Nutrice, Ottone
Bach
Johannes Passion - Alto
Weinachts Oratorium - Alto
Handel
Messiah - Alto
Alcina - Bradamante
Theodora - Irene
Mozart
Requiem - Alto
Coronation Mass - Alto
Le nozze di Figaro -
Marcellina
Die Zauberflöte - 3 dame
Cosi fan tutte - Dorabella
Pergolesi
Stabat Mater - Alto
Vivaldi
Stabat Mater - Solo
Nisi Dominus - Alto
Tito Manlio - Servillia
Juditha Triumphans - Ozias
Purcell
Fairy Queen - Sleep, Autumn
Dido & Aeneas - Dido, Sorceress
Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie - Phèdre
Cavalli
Didone - Didone
Puccini
Gianni Schichi - Zita
Menotti
The old maid and the thief -
Old Maid
Amahl and the night visitors -
Mother
Barber
A Hand of Bridge - Sally
Falla
El Amor Brujo - Solo
Beethoven
9th Symphony - Alto
Rachmaninov
Vespers - Alto
Ravel
L'enfant et les sortilèges - Enfant
Szymanowski
Stabat Mater - Alto
Bizet
Carmen -
Carmen (arias), Mercedes
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Rosina
L'italiana in Algeri - Isabella
La Gazza Ladra - Lucia
Petite Messe Solennelle - Alto
Mahler
2nd Symfonie - Alto
Stravinsky
Rake's progress - Baba the Turk,
Mother Goose
