Jazz 1 hour (up to 3 hours in total): £175 3 x 45 minute sets with 10 minute breaks |
Classical 1 hour (up to 1.5 hours total of actual singing / includes extra pianist): £205 2 x 40 minute sets with a 10 minute break |
Background music inbetween sets provided at no extra cost. |
Anglo-Venezuelan soprano and piano-bar performer Sofia has often been described as a versatile and flexible musician. She is finishing the Royal College of Music's prestigious Opera School as a Sybil Tutton Award Holder, a Huffner Scholar and supported by the Gordon Palmer Trust. She spent her early years between Venezuela, Azerbaijan, the UK, and France. She began piano studies at the age of 8, and later discovered a passion for composition. She won the Rotary Club's Jeune Talent District award (D1740) at age 14 for her musical achievements, and, a year later, was selected as the headliner performer for the Aquitaine Festival des Lyceens opening ceremony. She performed on several occasions as a self-accompanying singer-songwriter at the Conseil Régional of Aquitaine and for the Victoire des Sports ceremony. At age 16, she discovered a love for lyrical singing which she pursued during her undergraduate degree in Music at the University of Oxford in numerous operatic productions and renowned choirs (Schola Cantorum, Genesis 16). She also played as a regular performer at Sandy's Piano Bar (Oxford). Following her Bachelor's, she obtained a Master's in Music (Voice) at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she received a Distinction, and the highest grade of her year in singing. During her Postgraduate, she performed every week at the Marriott Hotel in Cardiff. In 2019, she spent three months in Florence in the context of the European Opera Academy, where she was hired on a weekly basis by the Four Seasons Hotel as a self-accompanying piano-lounge performer.
Since September 2020, she has been a regular performer at the OSO Barnes Piano Lounge. She has played for a variety of events in and around London (restaurant openings, hotel events, weddings, memorials, etc.).
Based in West London
JAZZ:
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered
Summertime
What a difference a day makes
How Insensitive
Fly me to the moon
My funny valentine
Nearness of you
Don’t know why
Lush life
Girl from Ipanema
New York, New York
Alfie
Vienna
Piano man
Your Song
CLASSICAL:
Ariettes Oubliées (Debussy)
‘Le temps des Lilas’ (Chausson)
‘Le colibri’ (Chausson)
‘Après un rêve’ (Fauré)
Shéhérazade (Ravel)
‘Deh, vieni non tardar’ (Mozart)
Exultate Jubilate (Mozart)
‘Si, mi chiamano Mimi’ (Puccini)
‘O mio babbino caro’ (Puccini)
On this Island (Britten)
Ave Maria (Schubert or Gounod)
Siete canciones populares Españolas (de Falla)
Power, a piano (with a pedal and a stool), a microphone and amp if
possible (but I have one if not). Water to drink.
30 minutes to 1 hour to set up.
Rotary Club of Excideuil (September 2018)
Sandy’s Piano Bar (April-July 2018)
University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s event office (2017)
St John’s College Alumni (2017-2018)