SONIA ALLORI is a composer, performer, researcher and community music therapist. Her PhD in composition explored interactions between words and music through the lens of gender and the influence of Italian contemporary classical music post-1900. In 2019 she performed in Sound Symphony (IAP/ Oily Cart) and The Lost Thing (Royal Opera House/ Candoco). Sonia was Artist-in-Residence with Drake Music in 2020 and is currently Artist with Sonic Bothy, an inclusive experimental music ensemble based in Glasgow. She toured the UK in Spring 2022 as performer with the second production of Sound Symphony (IAP/Oily Cart) and is currently Artist with The Sensory Collective at Independent Arts Projects researching sensory arts. Sonia is deaf, a wheelchair user and insatiably curious. She is a multi-instrumentalist and her practice continues to have words and music at its core. In 2022 Sonia was part of Sound & Music’s ‘New Voices’ cohort.
