Sophie regularly brings music to life for general audiences giving talks, hosting panels, writing programme notes, presenting concerts, and leading workshops.
Her aim is always to reveal the story behind the music in an engaging and entertaining way.
In recent years she has been a guest speaker for the BBC, European Opera Centre, Hallé, Imperial College Concert Society, Longborough Festival Opera, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Royal Ballet & Opera, Sheffield Recorded Music Society, Showroom Cinema, and University of the Third Age.
She is a regular contributor of notes and articles, writing for the BBC (Proms and concert series), Royal Ballet & Opera, Wigmore Hall, and Aldeburgh Festival.
TALKS AND NOTES
Selected Recent Work
Programme & Liner Notes
Recent commissions: notes for BBC Proms and Concerts, Wigmore Hall (e.g. Louise Alder), a programme essay on the music of Janáček's The Makropulos Case for the Royal Opera, and liner notes for a disc of new music for saxophone and electronics by Edwin Hillier and Hunter Coblentz
Talks
Recent engagements: pre-concert talks for the Nottingham International Concert Series on a range of 19th- and 20th-century music and joining the panel for the Royal Ballet & Opera Leonard Bernstein Insights event
Presenting
Recent presenting: Royal Ballet & Opera Insight events on I puritani (Jun), Wayne McGregor: Alchemies (Apr), and Last Days (Dec '25).
Example other work: book launch/podcast for Longborough Festival Opera feat. Richard Bratby, Mark Le Brocq, Anthony Negus, and Roderick Williams
Broadcasts
Example broadcasts: guest expert in conversation with Kate Molleson for Radio 3's Opera on 3 broadcast of Janáček's Jenůfa