The young bassoonist Sophia-Elisabeth Dill comes from a family of musicians and was born in Berlin in 2001. She received her first violin lessons at the age of 5, and after also learning the flute at the age of 8, Sophia-Elisabeth received her first bassoon lessons from Michael von Schönermark at the age of 9.
From 2016, Sophia-Elisabeth Dill was a junior student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Volker Tessmann. Sophia-Elisabeth successfully completed her Bachelor's degree with Michael von Schönermark at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in early 2023 and has since been studying for a Master's degree in Performance, also in Lucerne.
Sophia-Elisabeth took part in numerous master classes and received important artistic impulses from Prof. Dag Jensen, Prof. Philipp Zeller, Prof. Klaus Thunemann, Prof. Malte Refardt, Prof. Bence Bogányi and Prof. Tobias Pelkner. She has also won several prizes at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition and was awarded the Miele Primus Prize.
She is a scholarship holder of the PE-Förderungen Foundation and receives funding from the Credis Foundation. As a soloist, she has performed with a chamber music ensemble consisting of musicians from the Komische Oper Berlin and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and has given several concerts in Berlin and Brandenburg.
Sophia-Elisabeth has taken part in numerous academies, including the AIMS Festival Academy in Solsona, the Moritzburg Festival Academy and the Berlin Opera Academy. Sophia-Elisabeth is regularly engaged for projects with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin and the Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra Berlin.
In December 2022, Sophia-Elisabeth Dill performed several concerts with the Schubert Octet together with Isabelle van Keulen, Christian Poltéra, Rüdiger Ludwig and Paolo Beltramini. As part of the Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival 2024 in Basel, Sophia-Elisabeth Dill was part of the line-up for Arnold Schönberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, op. 9 with the contrabassoon.
Sophia-Elisabeth Dill has been a member of the Kurt Masur Academy of the Dresden Philharmonic since August 2024.