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INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, AND PODCASTS FEATURING
ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI'S WORK
"5 QUESTIONS TO ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI (COMPOSER)"
Review and interview with Caroline Potter of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
May 2025
"New music is such a “massive tent,” as Sam Rudd-Jones puts it — while everyone of course has aesthetic preferences and biases, I don’t understand why we should limit ourselves stylistically in our programming. We all listen to a huge variety of music, especially outside of classical music — I think a bit of challenging eclecticism can only be a good thing."
"IN CONVERSATION WITH: ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI AND LYDIA WALQUIST"
Interview with A Youngish Perspective
April 2025
"I definitely feel like my mental state is constantly oscillating between being a total doomer and this kind of strange, almost-naive optimism. I’ve recently felt this kind of weird push-pull in my compositions—between noise, dissonance, intensity on one end, and harmony, sincerity, maybe even romanticism on the other. So I guess you’re right in saying that there’s a beauty in the tension between those things."
"Stylistic irreverence & eclecticism: Zygmund de Somogyi & Temporal Harmonies at Wigmore Hall"
Preview with Planet Hugill
March 2025
"We’re aiming to capture a musical distillation of 21st-Century repertoire reflective of today's cultural zeitgeist as experienced by many of our peers: a playful-sincere exploration of satire and resistance, and attempt to find groundedness in the precarious feeling that maybe, just maybe, there’s hope at the end of it all."
"MEET ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI"
Interview with CanvasRebel Magazine
October 2024
"I like worldbuilding. I compose to engage with other peoples’ imaginations as much as portraying my own. I feel like that’s the role of the composer in society – to capture those feelings, energies, through our art form that are hard to find in the “real world” – and it just so happens that music is the medium we use."
"OPERA NOW MEETS GUILDHALL OPERA MAKERS: URSA MINOR"
Feature with Opera Now and Gramophone Magazine, co-written with Alexia Peniguel
June 2024
"We are interested in stories that give space to those often sidelined, not just because we are committed to diversity but because it makes for a more interesting narrative. Experiencing a story you think you already know that then shifts to give you a slightly different perspective does wonders for the brain."
"69. ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI: BURNOUT, BELONGING, AND COMMUNITY IN COMPOSITION"
Podcast interview with Hattie Butterworth and Rebecca Toal of Things Musicians Don't Talk About
March 2024
"You are giving part of your soul away, to an extent, when you write. It takes so much out of you to write one piece of music, let alone opera... I think it's not talked about enough, the effect that has on your mental health. I still feel anxiety when I hear a piece being premiered..."
"NEW MUSIC - COMPOSERS TO GET EXCITED ABOUT IN 2023"
Feature in DEBUT Classical alongside Ben Nobuto, Olivia Murphy, and Millicent James
March 2023
"The sound world in this piece is truly captivating, I LOVE the instrumentation, and urge you to take a listen!"
"HIKIKOMORI! - A NEW OPERA FOR OUR TIMES"
Feature with Frances Wilson of The Cross-Eyed Pianist
March 2022
"hikikomori! is an opera about grief, trauma, isolation, survivor’s guilt, and recovery from all of the aforementioned. For myself, a confrontation with the truth and its consequences is how we forge the path to acceptance, and the way we can bring ourselves to move on."
"COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT: ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI"
Interview with Jake Adams of The Arc Project
October 2021
"I'm very interested in online folklore - as a kid I was quite a shut in, I spent a lot of time online. Those became the folk tales I am inspired by because that's what I was exposed to - it's almost a separate culture that exists alongside the physical space. And so I'm really interested in giving those stories a cultural standing that has the same weight as stories in the traditional folk tales, those we tell ourselves and pass down through the generations."
"MEET THE ARTIST - ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI, COMPOSER AND CURATOR"
Interview with Frances Wilson of The Cross-Eyed Pianist
September 2021
"[We need to] democratise the concert hall: stop making classical music out to be this static, unchanging monolith dedicated to a select few dead white men from across the centuries. Make concerts affordable for all. Get rid of the notion that the Western art music canon — or the twelve-tone octave system — is universal truth."
"LOVE IT TO DEATH REVIEWS MESMERISING POST-ROCK OUTING 'ALWAYS BELIEVE' BY ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI"
Album review of Always Believe by Sam HB of Love It To Death Reviews
August 2019
"de Somogyi has created a journey in instrumentals as well as an album. Structurally, it’s perfect, each track challenging and complimenting the one before and the one to come after... ...nothing on this record is out of place. ‘Always Believe’ is an amazing album, through and through."
"INTERPRETATION/REVIEW: ZYGMUND DE SOMOGYI RELEASES INSTRUMENTAL LP 'TERMINALS'"
Album review of Terminals by Jess Morgan of Post Punk Press
September 2017
"First track ‘Sleeping In Airports’ is only the start of changing emotions with every note. It’s a strange feeling to hear music that genuinely feels empowering; not through words, or by the tone of voice but through the notes of a piano with fluctuating tempos changing like a season – slowly, and then all at once."
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