Described as a ‘superb singer actress’ (Opera Today), Anglo-Venezuelan soprano Sofia Kirwan-Baez  is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2025-27), a recipient of both the Musicians’ Company Award (2023) and the Sybil Tutton Award (2022), as well as the winner of the RCM Concerto Competition in 2021. She was a Young Artist on the National Opera Studio’s (NOS) Global Talent Programme 2023/24.

Operatic roles include Rosina Barbiere di Siviglia (Opéra National de Bordeaux 2025), Musetta La Bohème (Longborough Festival Opera 2024), Karolka Jenufa (cover at English National Opera 2024), Elle La Voix Humaine (2021 - 23), Adina Elisir d’Amore (Wild Arts 2023), Eurydice Orpheus in the Underworld, Tina Flight and World premieres of works by Jasper Dommett, Marco Galvani and Toby Young. Concert work comprises Handel’s Messiah (Wild Arts 2023, Nevill Holt 2022), Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (Birmingham Cathedral, MAC Birmingham), Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Monteverdi’s Vespers (Cadogan Hall), Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Dixit Dominus (Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford). She made her Wigmore debut in September 2023 as part of the Wigmore French Song Exchange.

Sofia began her musical studies with the violin in El Sistema in Caracas (Venezuela). She later started playing the piano, continuing both instruments in the Périgueux Conservatoire. Sofia studied Music at Oxford University and Vocal Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where she was supported by Rotary International. Sofia was a Huffner Scholar supported by the Sir Gordon Palmer Scholarship in the Royal College of Music Opera School.

Sofia is looking forward to returning to Longborough to cover Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) and to making her role debut in August as Susanna in Cumbria Opera Group’s The Marriage of Figaro. In 2026, she will also be returning to the Opéra National de Bordeaux as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte.