SOPHIE YUQING NIE

Sound Designer | Singer-Songwriter | Sound Artist | Audio Engineer

Sophie is a sound designer, singer-songwriter, sound artist, audio engineer, and certified Tonmeister whose work spans theatre, dance, concerts, installations, and studio recordings. Music, sound, and voice are her mediums for expressing what longs to be heard and told, for reaching toward greater love and genuine connections. Her practice demonstrates a refined sensitivity to musicality, tonal balance, timbre, texture, and spatial perception. Blending aesthetic sensitivity with technical expertise, she crafts sonic experiences that resonate deeply and invite emotional engagement and reflection.

She has collaborated with artists and organizations including Anne Bogart, Lee Sunday Evans, En Garde Arts, Irina Kruzhilina, Dmitry Krymov, Marilyn Nonken, Maureen Fleming, and Talking Band. Her sound design work has been presented at venues and festivals such as La MaMa, Under the Radar, ArtsEmerson, The DiMenna Center, and IATI. She holds a Master of Music in Music Technology and an Advanced Certificate in Tonmeister Studies from New York University.

Selected Theatre and Live Performance Works:

SpaceBridge (Visual Echo/La Mama/En Garde Arts)- Sound Designer

Dancing with Black Holes (Media Art Xploration)- Spatial Sound Realization, Soundscape Creator, Audio Engineer

Dreamcats! (Midnight Radio Show)- Sound Designer

Destination Undefined (Cellunova)- Sound Designer

Todas las mariposas negras mueren en el mar (IATI)- Sound Designer

Ready for Company and Other Family Tales (La MaMa)- Associate Sound Designer

Existentialism (Anne Bogart/Talking Band)- Audio Engineer

Uncle Vanya (Krymov Lab)- Audio Engineer

Big Trip (Krymov Lab)- Audio Engineer

Metamorphoses (Krymov Lab)- Audio Engineer

Class Dismissed (Soho Think Tank)- Audio Engineer

Sur (La MaMa) - Audio Engineer

The Poisoner (Uncommon Productions)- Audio Engineer

How to Eat an Orange (La MaMa/The Trojan Women Project)- Audio Engineer

The Alchemist’s Veil featuring Maureen Fleming- Audio Engineer

Piano 360 featuring Marilyn Nonken - Audio Engineer

SEAMUS National Conference 2024 - Audio Engineer

The White Liars directed by Sloan Thompson - Sound Designer

Silence directed by Luciana Fernandes - Sound Designer