ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI
composer
interdisciplinary artist
"For me, music has been a way to express myself in ways I couldn’t with words;
a way to feel seen and understood in a world I couldn’t understand."
Zygmund de Somogyi is a British-Filipino composer, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist based in London, UK.
Drawing from their punk rock background and DIY ethics, they employ a uniquely multifaceted approach to composition across contemporary classical, opera, theatre, film, and electronic music. Their recent works have explored themes of online folklore, collaborative worldbuilding, queer identity, metamodern aesthetics, and contradictory recontextualisations of genre and form.
• Zygmund was a Royal Philharmonic Society composer of 2025; their commissioned piece was performed by Temporal Harmonies, Inc. at Wigmore Hall on 19 April 2025, and toured to Harpa, Reykjavik (Iceland) in August.
• Zygmund’s second opera URSA MINOR, created with librettist Alexia Peniguel, was premiered in June 2024 to sold-out audiences at Milton Court Studio Theatre by the Guildhall Opera Department, in association with the Royal Ballet and Opera.
• Upcoming projects for 2026 include a "punk-rock cabaret opera" in development, commissions for àktapha and the Jasmine Quartet, and a song cycle for soprano Hannah Dienes-Williams.
