Sofia Oriana Infante (Santiago de Compostela, 1989) is a transmodern composer that currently lives in Ferrol (A Coruña).

 

Her higher education takes place at the Conservatory of Oviedo 'Eduardo Martínez Torner’ specializing in general and audiovisual composition, focusing her final research on the main aesthetic tendencies of young Spanish composers. She simultaneously completes a second degree in Primary Education, following her two main passions (2013). In 2014 Sofia achieves a Master of Education from the University of Oviedo and in 2015 a ‘Master in composing for film and TV' from Kingston University of London honoring her Final Project about the New York Times' 14 actors acting' with distinction.

 

She receives a very eclectic training in Oviedo thanks to composers like Edson Zampronha, Jorge Carrillo, Fernando Blanco, Miguel Fernández and Fernando Agüeria. During this period she also has the opportunity to learn from great composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Nico Muhly.

 

Among her musical productions different types of work can be found, from pieces for the audiovisual world to academic-contemporary compositions. Although it is hard to label her musical style due to its diversity, two main concepts can be used to describe it: multidisciplinar thinking and the representation of a transmodern reality.

 

During her first steps into the composition world, she attends the recordings of soundtracks by the Goya nominated composer Sergio Moure, 'Todo es silencio' by Jose Luis Cuerda and 'Time Rojak', by Isaac Kerlow, where she works as an orchestration assistant for Alejandro Román. In addition, she participates as a professor in two occasions at the Leonardo da Vinci project "European Art Confluence".

 

Premiered works during this training time were the Lied 'O cazador de libros' (2008) (Jose Manuel Yañez Carballeira and Maite Bárbara), with lyrics by the poet Ramiro Fonte, at Ferrol; 'Telestai' (2009) for the enssemble 'Tempo Catro' (Javier Cedrón, Suso Iglesias, Antonio Romero Cienfuegos and Andrés Pazos) in ‘Teatro do Andamio’ at A Coruña and 'Se la están cepillando todos los días' (2013) for flute, violin, electric guitar, bassoon and electronics in Oviedo.

 

While in London, she receives a commission from the 'Kingston 3A Orchestra' for the composition of 'Panta Rhei', a symphonic piece premiered at Kingston Upon Thames in 2015 conducted by David Ward.

 

Her attendance to the Bergerault International Festival (2017) should be noted, here she received personalized lessons from Alberto Bernal, Michael Maierhof and Yiran Zhao. In addition, contact with distinguished percussionists as Lucía Carro, César Peris, Luis Tabuenca, Philippe Spiesser and Mika Takehara keep awake an interest for the contemporary, real and virtual, composition. 'Relative Time' (2017) and 'Backwards Tape' (2017) are the resultant compositions of this contact, with a more personal style.

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Keeping her development as a professional composer, she wrote two orchestral pieces for the Real Filharmonía of Galicia; 'In memoriam' (2019) dedicated to the loss of her parents and 'Gratulantes' (2021), inspired on Gratulantes celebremus festum from the Codex Calixtinus. Both pieces were premiered at the Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela with Paul Daniel as the conductor. Other notable work is 'Cassandra 22' (2021) premiered by the OSG Sinfonietta (Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia) with Nacho de Paz at the Teatro Colón in A Coruña. 

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For the world of cinema, she composed soundtracks for shortfilms 'CARNE' (2019) by Camila Kater, 'Souvenir' (2019) by Cristina Vilches, 'Alina' (2021) by Néstor López and Óscar Romero and 'Sandwich Cat' (2022) by David Fidalgo, among others. She also wrote for the big screen in 'Elisa y Marcela' (2019) by Isabel Coixet and produced by Netflix or 'Justicia Artificial' (2024), soon in Amazon Prime.

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On July 2022, she got her PhD in Art History and Musicology with her Thesis "Artificial Intelligence as a compositional tool: AmperScore, AIVA, OrbComposer and Google Magenta" with the calification of Cum Laude. Also, she is part of the Pamp! team that represented Galicia at the AI Song Contest 2022, with "AI-LALELO" reaching the second position, and in 2023 with "Florespiña", reaching the third position worldwide.

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Nowadays she is working in a series of solo pieces with electronics for different instruments. 'RebuildingMi' (2021) for bassoon, piano and electronics and 'Don't talk to me about that (2024) for Euphonium and electronics are examples of this series.