ACWC/AFCC – Association of Canadian Women Composers/Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes
Sophie Dupuis
Sophie Dupuis is a composer from New Brunswick interested in interdisciplinary art music and music for soloist, small and large ensembles. She is recognized for her impressive technique and endless imagination. She finds her voice in her childhood spent in the picturesque scenery of the Maritimes, her attraction to raw electrical sounds, and her emotional response to art involving the human body and voice. Her works have been commissioned and performed by groups such as The Arts Song Project, Made in Trio, Din of Shadows, Caution Tape Sound Collective, Thin Edge New Music Collective, and ECM+ for their Generation2018 tour.
Sophie received a Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music from the University of Toronto and several prizes for her studies in music, including the University Medal in Music from Dalhousie University, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship and the Theodoros Mirkopoulos Fellowship in Composition two years in a row. She was nominated by composer James Rolfe to receive the 2019 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize Protégé award. Sophie recently completed her graduate degree and is now working on developing her skills with live and fixed electroacoustics. Aside from her activities as a composer, she works as a violinist, arranger and passionate music teacher of violin, piano and theory in Ottawa. She is also Vice-President of the Canadian League of Composers since 2019.
Sophie hold a Bachelor of Music in composition from Dalhousie University, and a Masters of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition from the University of Toronto.
List of Works
Vocal Works
Green & Green, for soprano, tenor, piano and percussion (6’) 2019
There will be no ice left in the Artic in 22* years from now, for SATB choir(3’) 2018
Song Cycle for a Dreamer, for soprano and piano (10’) 2017
Perceptions de LaFontaine, for soprano, flute, clarinet, oboe and percussion (10’) 2015
La belle Adèle, opera scene for soprano (10’) 2014
There’s Also People Outside, for ten sopranos, accordion, saxophone, two French horns, bassoon (6’) 2013
Homecoming, opera scene for tenor (10’) 2013
Le récital des anges, for tenor and piano (4’) 2011
Hasards, for SATB choir (5’) 2010
Solo Works
Listen if You Dare, for alto flute and tape (8’) 2018-9
Known Territories, multidisciplinary work for trumpet and tape (8’) 2018
Synapsids, for tuba and tape (8’) 2017
Improv on Bach, for violin(2’) 2013
Qui lazarum resuscitasti, for cello and tape (5’) 2012
Invention and Toccata for piano (3’) 2011
Meditation on Rage for violin (9’) 2009
Chamber Works
Taken by the Locos, for violin and percussion (5’) 2019
From one’s bed, for flute, clarinet and piano (8’) 2018
String Quartet (15’) 2017
Aftermath of Fire, for solo piano (5’) 2017
Birds Migrate to the Moon, for flute and electric guitar (5’) 2016
Fire, for violin, trumpet, horn in F and percussion (5’) 2016
Poveglia, for two Bb clarinets (9’) 2016
Words Fail Me, for accordion, piano, percussion and tape (8’) 2016
Prosopagnosia, for cello and piano (7’) 2015
Welcome to the Party, for flute, Bb clarinet, violin, double bass, piano and percussion (8’) 2014
Sketch for Cello, Double Bass and Piano (8’) 2013
À la dérive for violin and piano (4’) 2012
Mémoire Sensorielle for flute, two violins and piano (6’) 2012
Amusement Cynique for trumpet and piano (4’) 2011
Uncertainties, for percussion quartet (5’) 2011
Works for Large Ensemble
Elles ont peint le crépuscule de noir et de blanc, for ensemble of 10 musicians (14’) 2018
Black Winter, for wind ensemble (8’) 2017
Candide, for orchestra (7’) 2015
Lullaby, for orchestra (9’) 2013
One Last Thing Before I Go, for wind ensemble (8’) 2012
