Praised for her "passionate playing" and "precise execution" (The Strad), violinist-composer Anne Sophie Andersen is an unusually diverse artist exploring music from a variety of angles. One of her greatest passions is performing and promoting contemporary music. Through her interdisciplinary approach to performance and creation and revival of the composer-performer tradition, Ms. Andersen has established herself at the forefront of the emerging 21st century paradigm of contemporary art music. As the founder and Artistic Director of New Music for Strings Denmark/USA, she curates concerts and performs as a soloist and chamber musician, in venues such as Carnegie Weill Hall and National Sawdust New York, Musikhuset Aarhus, and Harpa Hall Reykjavik. She is a member of NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble and SayThatAgain Ensemble, both improvisation-based groups performing online as a response to the pandemic. Her music is regularly performed in Scandinavia and North America, and she has received work stipends from KODA (Danish collective rights management society) and Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation).

Anne Sophie Andersen is a recipient of the Samuel Baron Prize, awarded biennially by Stony Brook University in recognition of an exceptional young musician. As a chamber musician, she has worked with members of many of the world’s most outstanding ensembles, such as the Emerson String Quartet, whose members she collaborates with frequently. She has appeared as a soloist with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and her recording of Mats Edén’s Violin Concerto no. 1 with the Malmö New Chamber Orchestra was released for the Swedish label CY contemporary in 2015.

Anne Sophie Andersen has served as undergraduate violin, chamber music, and theory faculty at Stony Brook University and taught music technology at Adelphi University. An active guest lecturer, she was invited to give recitals and masterclasses at the Hong Kong Baptist University and University of Cuenca (Ecuador). Ms. Andersen’s research interest in synesthesia has lead to engagements as a speaker at the 2015 TEDxSBU conference and featured composer in the 2016 Synesthesia Playground project. Her work was presented and published at the NIME2021 conference with co-author Derek Kwan.

 Ms. Andersen is a current remote Visiting Scholar at UC Irvine. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in violin and a Master of Arts degree in composition from Stony Brook University. She also holds degrees from New England Conservatory, Malmo Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. 

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