One of today’s most exciting artists, Diana Soh is a multi-disciplinary Singaporean composer based in Paris. She has written for a wide range of instrumentation and disciplines from chamber music to orchestra, dance, film, choral and vocal music, and multi-media site-specific works.
Notable highlights include A is for Aiyah with soprano Elise Chauvin as the soloist, which was premiered in Singapore by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (2018), as well as her string quartet sssh with the Mettis Quartet at the Aix en Provence Festival (2018). Diana also wrote the monodrama Zylan ne chantera plus with writer Yann Verburgh and staged by Richard Brunel as part of “Opera de Lyon - hors les murs” initiative. It was first performed in November 2021, just shortly after Diana’s Viola duo My other self premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Provence as part of the Nouveaux Horizons’ festival.
Her upcoming seasons see her continuing her adventure in the world of music theatre with two operas: The Carmen Case; a co-commission from La Chapelle Musicale, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Théâtre de la Monnaie and Théâtre du Luxembourg and ensemble Ars Nova, which was premiered at the Tap in Poitiers May 2023, and will be repeated at the Opéra de Bordeaux and Théâtre du Luxembourg in January 2024; L’Avenir nous dira (the future will tell), a commission for a youth opera from Opéra de Lyon to be premiered as part of the Lyon festival in Spring 2025.
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Work list coming soon.