Sofia Castillo is currently studying at the Royal College of Music, London for a Master of Performance as a Doctor Knobel Fund Scholar with Sue Thomas, Celia Chambers and Stuart McIlwham. In 2011 she began studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with Anna Noakes and Margaret Campbell. She has participated in masterclasses with flautists such as Paul Edmund Davies, Karen Jones, Denis Bouriakov or Michael Cox and in 2014 she was awarded a scholarship to attend William Bennett’s International Flute Summer Festival. Sofia has recently won the Flute prize in the RCM solo competition and the Edward & Helen Hague Senior Woodwind Prize 2017.
Sofia has performed at many of the major concert halls in London including Cadogan Hall, St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James's Piccadilly. As a soloist she has performed at the Queen’s House, St Alfege Church and Blackheath Halls. Sofia has performed with orchestras including the Royal Orchestral Society, Orion Orchestra, King’s College Chamber Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra working with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Nicholas Collon, Martin Andre, Garry Walker and Stephen Bell. Last summer she performed in the world premiere of the opera Errori by Philip Ashworth, in a tour of Italy with the International Opera Theatre Orchestra of Philadelphia.
She has premiered and recorded works by various composers and has done numerous recordings for short films and documentaries such as the BBC ‘Horizon’ programme. Sofia is part of the Astor Trio and Siegfried Camerata, who perform regularly across London.
