Praised for her "passionate playing" and "precise execution" (The Strad), violinist-composer Anne Sophie Andersen is an unusually diverse artist exploring music from a variety of angles. Through her interdisciplinary approach to performance, creation and revival of the composer-performer tradition, Ms. Andersen has established herself at the forefront of the emerging 21st century paradigm of contemporary art music. As the founder and Artistic Director of New Music for Strings (established in 2016), she curates concerts and performs as a soloist and chamber musician, in venues such as Carnegie Weill Hall and National Sawdust New York, Musikhuset Aarhus, and Harpa Hall Reykjavik.

Highlights of 2025-2026 include premiering her violin concerto as soloist with the Aarhus Chamber Orchestra and touring with the commissioning project “Oscillations” for Duo Knarborg/Andersen in Denmark and abroad. Recent projects include “Seasons” - a mulitidisciplinary project including dance, video art, and strings - as well as the “collaborative composition project” co-created by composers and performers based in different countries and premiered at New Music for Strings festival 2021.

Anne Sophie Andersen is a recipient of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen talent prize in composition, Stony Brook university’s Samuel Baron Prize awarded in recognition of an exceptional young musician, and Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Järnåker prize. She has received work stipends from KODA (Danish collective rights management society) and Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation) and is a current member of the AUT (Aarhus Young Sound Artists) board.

Ms. Andersen is currently concert master of the Aarhus Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has worked with members of many of the world’s most outstanding ensembles, such as the Emerson String Quartet, whose members she collaborates with frequently. Since 2022, she has been a member of Duo Knarborg/Andersen with Danish percussionist Henrik Knarborg.

Anne Sophie has appeared as a soloist with the Aarhus Chamber Orchestra and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Her recording of Mats Edén’s Violin Concerto no. 1 with the Malmö New Chamber Orchestra was released for the Swedish label CY contemporary in 2015, and her album “Seasons” for solo violin was released by Sound Vision Lab in 2024.

Anne Sophie Andersen has served as undergraduate violin, chamber music, and theory faculty at Stony Brook University and taught music technology at Adelphi University. An active guest lecturer, she was invited to give recitals and masterclasses at the Hong Kong Baptist University and University of Cuenca (Ecuador). Ms. Andersen’s research interest in synesthesia has lead to engagements as a speaker at the 2015 TEDxSBU conference and featured composer in the 2016 Synesthesia Playground project. Her work was presented and published at the NIME2021 conference with co-author Derek Kwan as part of a remote Visiting Scholar residency at UC Irvine (2020-2021).

 Ms. Andersen holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in violin and a Master of Arts degree in composition from Stony Brook University. She also holds degrees from New England Conservatory, Malmo Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.