Sophie Graf - Soprano

After qualifying as a harpist and as a lawyer in Geneva, Sophie Graf, born in Switzerland to swiss parents, studied for two years as a postgraduate at the famous Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London supported by the Ernst Goehner and the Pro Arte Foundations. She studied the Opera course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow where she obtained a master in opera with distinction in 2001 supported by the Migros Ernst Goener, The Leenards Foundations, The Tillet Trust, The Texaco Award and the City of Geneva.

She won several prizes as the Jaccard-Villard Prize, the David Kelly Prize for her oratorio piece at the Mozart competition, the prize for the interpretation of french opera at the Saint-Anges competition in Paris and the Margaret Dick Prize in Scotland. She recently won the lieder prize in the Royal Scottish Academy competition. She had a finalist prize in the internationale competition in Verviers/Belgium and was finalist of promotion lyrique in Paris.

Sophie appeared frequently in concerts in Geneva, London and France. She participates also in the Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc Festival at the Guildhall School in London and has participated at the Festival of the Moulin d’Ande, at the “Escales Musicales” in Evian, at the Emperi Festival in Salon de Provence, at the “Sommets Musicaux” in Gstaadt in February 2003.
She sang Sophie in Werther’s opera in Tours, the title role of Manon from Massenet in Glasgow, Sylvabelle in Auberge du Cheval Blanc, Princesse Fleurette. In Avignon, she sang recently the role of Barbarina in Noce de Figaro in Avignon and Toulon.
She sang in Paris in November 2003 the Stabat Mater of Pergolese and the Laudate Pueri of Vivaldi with Jean-Claude Malgoire.

She will be Naiade in Ariadne auf Naxos in March. In April she will sing the Messa in C/Mozart with Pau Orchestra on tour and in June she will do the feminine role in the composition of Thierry Besancon "la Landwehr", in Fribourg/Switzerland.

In 2005, she will be Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Nantes and Angers.

In Swizerland,in September, she will sing in st Saphorin in the Grappe et Vin Festival and she will be Cunegonde (Candide/Bernstein) in Switzerland.

Updated February 2004