Diana Soh (b. 1984) is a young Singaporean composer whose musical interest is currently directed at exploring performance interactivity. Her music tends to be characterised by interruptive oppositions between surface activities and passivity with a recent passion for the manipulation of live electronics.

Her music has been performed in venues as varied as Takefu International Festival (JP), LSO St. Luke’s (UK), Royaumont (FR), Acanthes (FR), June in Buffalo (US), Unerhörte Musik series (DE), Gaudeamus (NL), Manifeste (FR), Klang (DK), as well as in Singapore. Her music has also been broadcasted recently on the BBC Radio 3 and France Musique and most recently on the Deutschlandfunk as part of the Forum Neuer Musik.

She has had the good fortune of working with musicians such as James Avery, Magnus Andersson, NEO Norbotten, Tony Arnold, New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik,  TIMF Ensemble, the Arditti Quartet, Peter Eötvös, the Cikada Ensemble, Athelas Sinfonietta, Ensemble Court Circuit and Ensemble Phoenix Basel among many others.

In 2013, she received her Doctorate from the University at Buffalo under the tutelage of David Felder and has spent the last 2 years at IRCAM for the Cursus 1 and 2 (2011-2013). She currently resides in Paris where she was also the composer-in-residence (2012-2013) at the Conservatoire d’Ivry Sur Seine in partnership with La Muse en Circuit, the National Center for Creation. The end of her residency in 2013 was marked with her first portrait concert as part of the Festival Extension, with the kind sponsorship of l’ARIAM and l’ADIAM94.

She is currently working on new commissions and projects with the Impuls Festival and Klangforum Wien, IRCAM, Ensemble Multilatérale, Aporia Survival Kit, Promenade Sauvage and Ryoko Aoki that take from Paris to Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Japan.

(more information, www.dianasoh.com)