Short Bio
Sophia Bardoutsou is a pluri-media composer, educator, and researcher based in Rotterdam. Her work engages with the intersection of acoustic sound, digital media, and diverse disciplines. Through interactive media and indeterminacy, she crafts experiences where collaboration and interaction are at the forefront. She is a member of Collective Brownout where she explores composition as a social, rather than an individual, practice, and performance as a research method.
She is currently a professional doctorate fellow of the professorship “Intercultural Performing Arts” at Codarts (Rotterdam). In 2020 she worked as a music teacher and choir conductor in Patras (Greece). In 2019- 20 she was the coordinator of the Composition Lab, at the Ionian University and organized Music Workshops for children, in collaboration with the Historical and Folklore Museum of Longos (2020) and with Paxos Islands Foundation (2015).
She studied Composition with Hans Koolmees and René Uijlenhoet at Codarts University of the Arts (Master’s degree), the Department of Music Studies of Ionian University, Greece (Bachelor’s degree), and the HKU Utrecht Conservatory (exchange student). She attended master classes in music composition with Wim Henderickx and Jorrit Tamminga, in music pedagogy with Clare Hall and Olympia Agalianou, and choral conducting with Maria Guinand and Doreen Rao, among others. She has also studied piano and holds a diploma in Byzantine music.
Works & Collaborations
Seas of Corn - 2024
Site-specific performance
Written and performed by Collective Brownout Alle Tijd Festival 2024 (Rotterdam) and De Hangar (Arnhem).
for solo soprano, youth choir, orchestral ensemble, and modular synth
Commissioned for The Lullaby Project organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), in partnership with the musical social inclusion project El Sistema Greece and New York's Carnegie Hall.
Performance in the Alternative stage of the Greek National Opera in May 2024.
Interactive multimedia game- piece
Korzo Theater (The Hague) - Playground event April 2024
for choir, harmonium, percussion, and electronics
Commission of arrangement by the Laurens Collegium Choir
Performance at de Doelen, Rotterdam 7th Oct. 2023
How to propagate a gardener - 2023
Site Specific Performance
Written by Lio Spinewijn and performed by Collective Brownout at Buitenplaats Brienenoord in June 2023
Kyrie Eleison (SSA) - 2023
for female voices
commissioned by Voci Contra Tempo
Presentation at St. Mathews Church in Berlin as part of the Homelands Festival 2023, organized by Choral Space.
15’ opera for solo countertenor, vocal and orchestral ensemble, and electronics
Presented at the Dutch National Opera and the Opera Forward Festival 2023
for vocal quartet, organ, drums, and electronics
premiere by Azhar Quartet at Paradijskerk, Rotterdam
Site Specific Performance
Performed by Collective Brownout in April 2022 at Het Archief, Rotterdam.
For Alexia - 2020
Children’s Chamber Opera
Performed at the Ionian Academy (Corfu, Greece)
The Word Was Made Flesh (SATB) - 2018
Performed by the Ionian University Choir at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Corfu, Greece)
Song Cycle: The Myths of Flowers - 2016
written for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, piano, cello and flute
Premiere at the Ionian Academy by students of the Ionian University (Corfu, Greece)