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Sophie Pope (* 1988 in in Sheffield, England) is an English-German trombonist, conductor and composer.

Life

Sophie Pope was born in 1988 in Sheffield, England. She studied for two years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with David Horne and Masters in Composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Caspar Johannes Walter. In 2013 she completed an exchange semester at the Manhattan School of Music with Nils Vigeland. She is a founding member of the Stuttgarter Kollektiv für aktuelle Musik.

Her music is performed internationally: in Brazil at the “eu gostaria de ouvir” festival, Tel Aviv as part of a German-Israeli exchange, New York, and Krakow as part of the Axes Triduum 2011. In 2014, The Thin Edge New Music Collective performed a commissioned composition in Canada.

Source Sophie Pope: http://www.sophiepope.com