From waving hands in the air to composing.

 I do like spending time with people a lot, but I also see myself as a good companion when I’m alone. This started when I was just a young and very small girl, even though I have siblings, I remember being easily entertained on my own by having a small stool and a cd of one of the classics of classical music that I got from my father. I would get up that stool and pretend I was the conductor of that orchestra that was playing through the speakers. Just waving my hands like I knew what I was doing. At that moment if somebody asked me what I wanted to become in life, I would say I’d be a conductor. When I didn’t have the possibility to play that cd, I would imagine how the orchestra would sound but then I made my own harmonies and melodies in my head. Later on I realized that was when my love for composing started.

That was in the 90’s. And now we’re here. Still thankful for having that little companion of a creator in me. Letting me make new music and constantly developing as a composer and songwriter. Thinking in possibilities and believing in the imaginative mind.

As a film composer I worked on documentaries like ‘WAD’ TV series by Ruben Smit, that was aired on Dutch national television in April/May 2020, ‘Grutto!’ that was in more than 70 Dutch national cinemas in 2022 and ‘Strand’ that aired on Dutch national television in February 2023. You’ll find more film and media projects I composed for on here if you’re curious. 

As a nature and Scandinavia lover I went to an island near the city of Bodø, Norway. For one because I enjoy traveling on my own, doing things that are unplanned and sometimes impulsive. But also this trip was even better because I went to that island to get inspired and write new music. I came back with a bunch of new songs, and they became my new EP Islands. A few years later my concept album ‘ISA’ was born in Iceland during my stay as Artist in Residence.

The reason I go to such beautiful places is that it feels like I’m in my own film, live and playing only at that moment. And with a movie comes a soundtrack. When I travel, hike or just am in nature, I always have music in my ears, to connect the music with that live film that’s playing right in front of me.

I want to share that by creating music so everyone can imagine their own film.
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Highlights

Winner ‘De Grote Prijs van Nederland’ (National grand prize in the Netherlands) in 2013.
Since 2017 member of Luminar together with composer, guitarist and producer Evert Zeevalkink.
Second prize CAIFF film scoring contest 2019, California, USA.
First award ‘Music: Best Pop’ at Berlin Motion Picture Festival 2018 with ‘Andras’.
TV Commercial charts, ‘Come Home’ runner up ‘Reclamemuziek Top 40 2020, - written for Dutch company Interpolis.

Press quotes

Volkskrant, about winning The Grand Prize:
Dragt from Wageningen impressed the jury with her 'good pop songs and beautiful song structure'. Furthermore, her show was complete from start to finish. '

OOR, about the album ‘I See You’:
Nine very strong songs, forged through a warm production. For example, in Willow, Dragt emerged as the Agnes Obel of the low lands. Glowing, autumn and with a pleasantly stimulating melancholy. After that you listen to the beautiful melody in Till It's Over and the big melancholic finale is in As You Fell, Sing Each Other To Sleep and Under The Stones, which always feels like a tropical rain shower on a hot day.

IndieObsessive.blogspot.com:
“Lighter” is a declaration of independence. Regardless of the outcome, “I’ll be fine.” There is an innocence in the voice of Sofia Dragt as she explains her willingness to accept whatever the future holds. The innocence in the vocals is supported by elegance in the piano and violin.