Sophie Dupuis

Composer

Bio

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 holds 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 (2019) — soprano, tenor, piano and percussion (6’)

There will be no ice left in the Artic in 22* years from now (2018) — SATB choir (3’)

Song Cycle for a Dreamer (2017) — soprano and piano (10’)

Perceptions de LaFontaine (2015) — soprano, flute, clarinet, oboe and percussion (10’)

La belle Adèle (2014) — opera scene for soprano (10’)

There’s Also People Outside (2013) — ten sopranos, accordion, saxophone, two French horns, bassoon (6’)

Homecoming (2013) — opera scene for tenor (10’)

Le récital des anges (2011) — tenor and piano (4’)

Hasards (2010) — SATB choir (5’)

Solo Works

Listen if You Dare (2018-19) — alto flute and tape (8’)

Known Territories (2018) — multidisciplinary work for trumpet and tape (8’)

Synapsids (2017) — tuba and tape (8’)

Improv on Bach (2013) — violin(2’)

Qui lazarum resuscitasti (2012) — cello and tape (5’)

Invention and Toccata (2011) — piano (3’)

Meditation on Rage (2009) — violin (9’)

Chamber Works

Taken by the Locos (2019) — violin and percussion (5’)

From one’s bed (2018) — flute, clarinet and piano (8’)

String Quartet (2017) (15’)

Aftermath of Fire (2017) — solo piano (5’)

Birds Migrate to the Moon (2016) — flute and electric guitar (5’)

Fire (2016) — violin, trumpet, horn in F and percussion (5’)

Poveglia (2016) — two Bb clarinets (9’)

Words Fail Me (2016) — accordion, piano, percussion and tape (8’)

Prosopagnosia (2015) — cello and piano (7’)

Welcome to the Party (2014) — flute, Bb clarinet, violin, double bass, piano and percussion (8’)

Sketch (2013) — Cello, Double Bass and Piano (8’)

À la dérive (2012) — violin and piano (4’)

Mémoire Sensorielle (2012) — flute, two violins and piano (6’)

Amusement Cynique (2011) — trumpet and piano (4’)

Uncertainties (2011) — percussion quartet (5’)

Works for Large Ensemble

Elles ont peint le crépuscule de noir et de blanc (2018) — ensemble of 10 musicians (14’)

Black Winter (2017) — wind ensemble (8’)

Candide (2015) — orchestra (7’)

Lullaby (2013) — orchestra (9’)  

One Last Thing Before I Go (2012) — wind ensemble (8’)

Would You Stop Raining? (2012) — orchestra (5’)