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 is a Royal Philharmonic Society composer of 2025, partnered with Wigmore Hall Learning; their commissioned piece premiered at Wigmore Hall on 19 April 2025.
• 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.
• Their recent song cycle Gilded, with librettist Sara Clifford, was commissioned by and performed at the 2024 Composers Conference at Avaloch Farm, New Hampshire.
