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Sophie Delafontaine

Sophie Delafontaine’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK…

Sophie Delafontaine has received awards at the following contests:

  • Concours biennal de composition acousmatique Métamorphoses, Ohain (Belgium): 2016
  • Concours d’interprétation spatialisée Espace du son, Ohain (Belgium): 2012
  • Concurso de Composición Electroacústica Destellos, Mar del Plata (Argentina): 2013
  • Totem électroacoustique, Montréal (Québec): 2025

I am a female artist, composer, performer, and occasional dancer. My artistic journey has been proceeding from movement and sound since my childhood. Contemporary dance, which I have been doing since the age of four, opened the first door to music for me. While dancing I discovered numerous music genres, acousmatic music in particular. I also played piano, but quickly figured that it did not fit me as an instrument to compose on.

That is how I left my native Swiss mountains to land at the Conservatoire royal de Mons / Arts2 — École supérieure des arts (Belgium) for new adventures. There I studied acousmatic composition under Annette Vande Gorne, Philippe Mion, and Ingrid Drese, and completed a Master’s degree in 2014.

I mostly compose acousmatic music, but I also compose stage music. My approach is influenced by my collaborations with theatre and dance. I draw inspiration from the moods, stories and characters that fuel those projects. More recently, since I became a mom, my inspiration has been more rooted in personal, intimate topics.

I am also an acousmatic music performer on the acousmonium. For me, composition and performance are intertwined and feed off each other. When composing, I am already thinking about what I will be able to do on the acousmonium in concert. I am even passionately teaching spatialized performance at Arts2.

[English translation: François Couture, vi-26]

Sophie Delafontaine

Lausanne (Switzerland), 1988

Residence: Brussels (Belgium)

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Sophie Delafontaine [Photo: Britt Roger Sas, Brussels (Belgium), April 30, 2026]
Sophie Delafontaine [Photo: Britt Roger Sas, Brussels (Belgium), April 30, 2026]

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