Born in Lourdes (France) in 1963, Sophie Lacaze studied music at the Conservatoire National de Region de Toulouse, and she went on to further studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris where she received the Composition Prize. Afterwards, she studied with Allain Gaussin, Antoine Tisne and Philippe Manoury in France, and with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena (Italy). She also engaged in music theatre with Georges Aperghis at the Centre Acanthes and attended Pierre Boulez's courses in College de France. Sophie Lacaze has been developing a partnership with several music ensembles and soloists in France and abroad for more than 15 years. In 2009, she was awarded the Grand Prix Lyceen des Compositeurs (2009) for "les quatre elements", concerto for flute, children choir and small percussion instruments, and in 2010 she received the Claude Arrieu Prize of the SACEM for her body of work. In 2012, she is laureate of the association Beaumarchais SACD. Her compositions, which range from works for solo instruments to chamber and orchestral music, with also two chamber operas and works with tape, are regularly performed in more than 20 countries in leading festivals, for example: Melbourne International Arts Festival and Barossa Music Festival (Australia), Kortrijk Happy New Ears Festival, 2de Belgisch Fluitfestival in Brussels, Les printemps de Saint Laurent (Belgium), Musica Nova Festival (Brazil), LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona (Spain), Festival de Musique Francaise de Tokyo and Hamamatsu Wood instruments International Festival (Japan), 2D2N Festival (Ukraine), Contemporary Music Festival "Is Arti" (Lithuania), Festival de musique franco polonaise in Krakow, "Laboratorium Muzyki Wspolczesnej" International Festival and "Ogrody Muzyczne" Festival in Warsaw (Poland), International New Music Week in Bucharest and Contemporary Music Festival in Bacau (Roumania), Belgrade Alternative film & video festival (Serbia), and numerous festivals in France. Sophie Lacaze has been developing a partnership with several music ensembles and soloists in France and abroad for more than 15 years. In 2009, she was awarded the Grand Prix Lyceen des Compositeurs (2009) for "les quatre elements", concerto for flute, children choir and small percussion instruments, and in 2010 she received the Claude Arrieu Prize of the SACEM for her body of work. In 2012, she is laureate of the association Beaumarchais SACD. Her compositions, which range from works for solo instruments to chamber and orchestral music, with also two chamber operas and works with tape, are regularly performed in more than 20 countries in leading festivals, for example: Melbourne International Arts Festival and Barossa Music Festival (Australia), Kortrijk Happy New Ears Festival, 2de Belgisch Fluitfestival in Brussels, Les printemps de Saint Laurent (Belgium), Musica Nova Festival (Brazil), LOOP Video Art Festival in Barcelona (Spain), Festival de Musique Francaise de Tokyo and Hamamatsu Wood instruments International Festival (Japan), 2D2N Festival (Ukraine), Contemporary Music Festival "Is Arti" (Lithuania), Festival de musique franco polonaise in Krakow, "Laboratorium Muzyki Wspolczesnej" International Festival and ""Ogrody Muzyczne"" Festival in Warsaw (Poland), International New Music Week in Bucharest and Contemporary Music Festival in Bacau (Roumania), Belgrade Alternative film & video festival (Serbia), and numerous festivals in France. It is performed by distinguished ensembles and artists such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de RadioFrance (conductor Pierre Andre Valade), Orchestre de Perpignan Mediterranee and the Camerata de France (conductor Daniel Tosi), "Mihail Jora" Philarmonic Orchestra (conductor Ovidiu Balan), Roumanian Radio Orchestra (conductor Horia Andreescu), Nouvel Orchestre de Chambre de Rouen (conductor Joachim Leroux), Orchestre de Flutes Francais (conductor Pierre Alain Biget), Choeur Calliope (conductor Regine Theodoresco), Appoggiature vocal ensemble (conductor Eliette Roche), musicians of the Orchestre National de Lyon, Arcadie Flute Quartet, Trio a Cordes de Paris, Benaim String Quartet, Trio 3D, Durufle, Helios, Piano & Co, Pleiade and Aujourd'hui Musiques Ensembles (France), Tetraflutes Ensemble (Switzerland), Hinemoa Flute Ensemble (Belgium), Image Flute Quartet (Italy), Canberra New Music Ensemble and Settembrini Trio (Australia), Antara Ensemble (Chili), Aperto Trio and Pro Contemporania Ensemble (Romania), Pierre Yves Artaud, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Jean-Claude Gerard, Baudoin Giaux, Daniel Kientzy, Marie Kobayashi, Yumi Nara, Nathalie Negro, Kiyoko Okada, Nadia Ratsimandresy, Christel Rayneau, Gabriella Smart, Chiharu Tachibana, Fuminori Tanada, Francoise Vanhecke, Stephen Whittington, Frederique Wolf Michaux. In 2012, MEZZO TV broadcast a short film "Sophie Lacaze - composer" (Mezzo Composeries, April 2012), French magazine Traversieres published an article about her music for flute (n.104, Oct 2012), and Italian Foundation: Donne in Musica selected her work "cinq voyelles pour quatre flutes" for the concert given during the presentation of WIMUST project in European Parliament in Brussels (June 2012). Besides, her new CD "Souffles" is published by the Editions de l'Astronome (December 2012). Sophie is regularly invited to give master classes or conferences (IUFM in Tarbes, CNR in Versailles, CRR in Rouen France; Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Barossa Music Festival Australia; Conservatoire Royal in Brussels and Conservatoire Royal in Liege Belgium). She is Artistic Director of the Printemps Musical d'Annecy and Associate Professor at Montpellier University where she teaches composition and orchestration. Her works are published by Billaudot, Leduc, Delatour and Svitzer Editions. Unsubdued but attentive to musical trends and schools, Sophie Lacaze has developed an original aesthetics that takes into account the current research on sound while looking to restore music its primary functions, ie ritual, incantation, dance, and its links with nature.