Sophia Brous (born 1985) is an artist, performance-maker, musician and curator based in New York and Melbourne, Australia. Brous was program director of the

Melbourne International Jazz Festival The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz music festival first held in Melbourne, Australia in 1998. The Festival takes place in concert halls, arts venues, jazz clubs and throughout the streets of Melbourne. The 2021 Festiva ...

from 2009-2011. She has also worked as a presenter on

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radio, and as music curator at the

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. In 2011, Brous released her debut EP, ''Brous''. According to Craig Mathieson writing for the ''

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'', the tracks range from "gilded 1950 exotica and space-age textures to folk mysticism and spooked electronica". In 2015, she created Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic in collaboration with the Art Centre Melbourne. In 2016, Brous went to New York and was appointed

artist-in-residence Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...

at National Sawdust. She created "Lullaby Movement", a

song cycle A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice ...

with

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from 25 different cultures. The same year, she and New Zealand pop singer Kimbra launched the band EXO-TECH, a large ensemble of New York musicians. In 2018 she created Dream Machine with musician Dave Harrington, a large-scale concert installation for Pioneer Works New York / Red Bull Music Festival, featuring Iggy Pop, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Zeena Parkins, Greg Fox. In 2020 she was made a resident artist at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. In 2021 she was a resident artist at Providenza in Corsica, France. In 2022, she co-directed The Invisible Opera in collaboration with Lara Thoms, Samara Hersch and Faye Driscoll for RISING festival in Melbourne. Her next project is an adaptation for the stage of the landmark novella ''Le Mont Analogue'' (1952) by French writer Réné Daumal that will be premiered at Ultima festival in Oslo in September 2022. This year she became the artistic director of Sophia Club, a program of cultural events in New York, London and Melbourne. Brous attended King David School, Wesley College and the

Victorian College of Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

. She moved to Boston to study at the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...

and the

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brous, Sophia Living people 1985 births Australian jazz singers Australian women singer-songwriters Jewish Australian musicians People educated at Wesley College (Victoria) New England Conservatory alumni Berklee College of Music alumni Australian radio presenters 21st-century Australian singers 21st-century Australian women singers Australian women radio presenters 21st-century Australian singer-songwriters