Both an accomplished violinist and composer, Anne Sophie Andersen is an unusually diverse artist seeking to explore music from a variety of angles. One of her greatest passions is performing and promoting contemporary music, and she has collaborated with several composers in the US as well as her native region of Scandinavia. Ms. Andersen’s compositions include orchestral, ensemble and solo pieces for a variety of instruments, as well as works with live electronics. She has written, performed and lectured on works by Schubert, Carter and Grisey and was a presenter at the 2015 TEDxSBU conference.

Anne Sophie Andersen is the board leader and a faculty member of the festival “New Music for Strings” in Aarhus, Denmark and the founder of Stony Brook Chamber Ensemble. She is currently completing the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in violin and the Master of Arts degree in composition at Stony Brook University.