Catalog & Projects of Creations

Projects in the pipeline

“Fin’amor”

Creation Project

Festival Présence Compositrices order – Creation of a vocal piece for soprano voice, female choir, nickelharpa, cello and Tamtam written on a poem by Gersende de Sabran, trobairitz from the 13th century.

Creation order by Festival Presence Compositrices at the Abbaye de la Celle on May 2, 2026 by the Trio Nota and its musicians

“Animal”

Creation project

Selected for the Final of the Unanimes Composition Competition organized by the AFO – creation of a symphonic work that will be premiered on October 1, 2026 in Paris by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

“Enigmes” (Riddles)

Creation Project

Commission for a vocal piece with mezzo-soprano voice, grand choir, percussion, piano and celesta, written on poems by Louise Ackerman – with the great choir of Radio France, Emmanuel Jacquet on percussions and Caroline Cren on keyboards.

Commissioned by Radio France – creation – recording on October 31, 2026 – Invitation to the show “Création Mondiale” on France Musique hosted by Anne Montaron

Catalog of Creations

Orchestral Music

“All is one”

Creation of a lyric poem for voice and orchestra

based on an anonymous Tamil text from the 19th century, to be premiered by the CRR de Créteil orchestra conducted by Florent Didier on December 17, 2025 in the CRR de Créteil auditorium.

Running time: 8’30

“Written from an anonymous Tamil text of the nineteenth century, ‘All is one’ is a teaching of Advaita-Vedânta inviting the awareness of our Unity. The solo voice embodying Wisdom and the orchestra echoing the world as a backdrop.

Chamber Music

“Autre Terre” (Other land)

Creation on November 17, 2025

Partnership with the L’Instant Donné ensemble

Solo quartet for viola, harp, piano and percussion as part of the Concert Eclats 2.1 at the CRR de Créteil

Running time: 9’10

“Autre terre” is inspired by a dream, a lost land, imagined, found again then torn away. Dream of an interior space that opens onto other unsuspected places, a space to oneself sometimes free, sometimes threatened. An inner territory in search of freedom.

“Prima Materia

Creation December 9, 2024

Partnership with the L’Instant Donné ensemble

Solo quartet for violin, flute, bass clarinet and cello as part of the Concert Eclats 2.1 at the CRR de Créteil

Running time: 8’50

“In this room, I imagined the emergence of primordial matter at the origin of star formation and all forms of life. Born from chaos, cell after cell, from breath to matter, from rhythm to vibration, “Prima Materia” goes through various metamorphoses where the material moves in different states and sound textures. In this organization, I imagined the phases of this metamorphosis, from rhythmic breathing to singing, from pulsation to cry.”

“Vision

Creation October 23, 2024

Commission from the ensemble Ars Nova written on thoughts of Hildegard von Bingen for choir, organ, soprano saxophone, brass quintet, accordion and percussion, performed by the ensemble Ars Nova, Tom Rioult and the choirs of E.Piaud, conducted by Jérôme Pillement as part of the festival Royan-Organs

Running time: 10’00

«The body is the workshop of the soul where the spirit comes to do its scales.» Built from fragments of texts by the mystic Hildegard Von Bingen, the piece «Vision» composed by Sophie Leleu invites a dive into oneself, imagining the states experienced and crossed by the saint during her visions.

“Sur l’étoffe de mon âme”

Creation March 22, 2024 / Festival Electrosession / Saint-Palais sur Mer

Poème lyrique commandé par l’ensemble Ars Nova, écrit sur une poésie de la poétesse perse Tahéré Qurrat al-Ayn.

For 6 musicians: contralto voice, string quartet and piano

Running time: 7’45

Editions L’octanphare

“Sixth Sense”

Creation July 10, 2025

Instrumental solo for bass clarinet – Commissioned by theArs Nova ensemble, recorded by Eric Lamberger, broadcast as a Mosaic in March 24 and premiered by Martin Adamek of the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Institut Suédois in Paris in July 2025.

Running time: 2’30

“In this room, I imagined weaving a link between the visible and the invisible, between the terrestrial and the supraterrestrial. By making the ends of the bass clarinet dialogue with each other, I imagined activating the porosity of the worlds, opening a door, building a bridge, establishing a dialogue with the beyond…”

“Le feu & l’eau”

Creation July 2023 / Centre culturel de Sarlat la Canéda

Melody creation

For vocals and harp

Festival Les Musicales

Running time: 6’34

“La chambre secrète”

Creation June 2023 / CRR d’Aubervilliers

Instrumental piece created by the2E2M ensemble directed by Léo Margue

For 4 musicians: flutes, bass trombone, percussion and double bass

Running time: 11’18

“Solstice – chant à la lune”

Creation March 2023 / Philharmonie de Paris

Creation on a poem by Houshang Ebtehâj, performed by Ensemble Multilatérale

Commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris

For 6 musicians: contralto voice, violin, harp, piano, cello and clarinets

Tremplin de la Création

Running time: 7’59

“Heureux celui qui n’a pas de Patrie”

Creation June 2022 / CRR d’Aubervilliers

Lyric poem created by the Accroche Note ensemble on a text by Hannah Arendt

For 4 musicians: soprano, clarinets, electric guitar and cello

Running time: 8’26

“Ode à la terre”

Creation June 2021 

Lyric poem created by the ensemble Court-Circuit and Eliette Prévot, based on a text by Amina Saïd, for light soprano, oboe, French horn, viola and percussion. 

Duration:  8’26

“Le songe d’Ossian”

Creation June 2017 / Bibliothèque Départementale de Provence

Creation of a lyrical piece based on Ossian’s poetry

For mezzo-soprano, tenor and harp with Jean-Christophe Born

Commissioned by the Bibliothèque Départementale de Marseille as part of the art history symposium “La légende d’Ossian et l’art préromantique en Europe”.

Running time: 18’54

Live Performance Music

Music for “Vienna 1913

July 2022 / Avignon Festival

Creation of incidental music commissioned by the Influenscènes company for a musical theater piece.

Solo harp

Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre des Gémeaux

“From Women to Women”

November 2021

Concert program and album

Compositions and arrangements of Sephardic melodies for harp, vocals and percussion

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Album distributed by Absilone

“En-Vie”

March 2020 / Ferme du Buisson – Scène Nartionale

Creation of music and libretto for circus show with circus artist Lucie Lastella

For 2 musicians and band: vocals, harp and percussion

Commissioned by La Ferme du Buisson- scène Nationale in partnership with Circus Next, Le plus petit cirque du monde, Espace Périphérique – La Villette

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Running time: 35’11

“Return, forgetful muse”

Summer 2019

Song from the show “En-Vie” based on W.Shakespeare’s sonnet 100

Clip production

For voice and harp

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Running time: 6’51

Chant d’une Amazone”

February 2019 / Chapiteau Raj’ganawack

Music for circus artist Lucie Lastella

For vocals, harp and looper

Order du Plus Petit Cirque du Monde

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Running time: 14’12

“L’Envol d’Arzach”

2017 / Dinan Harp Festival

Lyrical epic

For vocals, harp and percussion

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Running time 14’32

“Les ailes ne poussent que la nuit”

July 2010 / Festival d’Avignon

Music for the puppet show “Les ailes ne poussent que la nuit” (Wings only grow at night)

Commissioned by Artemisia

“De l’endroit où je suis, je voudrais voir l’envers”

August 2007

Creation of an album of compositions based on poems by Eric Boyer

For voice and harp

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

“Laisse-moi m’évaporer dans l’espace”

December 2002

Creation of a solo album

For vocals and harp

“Le Sac , Le Protée

October 2002 / Espace Alternation Paris

Creation of musical tales for the “Au bout du nez” group

For 4 musicians: vocals, harp, electric guitar, drums and double bass

Electroacoustic Music / Installation

“Souffle”

Created February 2021 / CRR d’Aubervilliers

Mixed piece created by Philippe Récard of the Ars Nova ensemble with Youssra Khechai

For 2 musicians: bassoons, cello and spatialized tape, broadcast in quadraphony

Running time: 12’16

“Le Monde intérieur de Pierre”

July 2006

Creation of an album of electroacoustic music for installation, commissioned by sculptor Pierre Shasmoukine for his exhibition: Galerie Gorodka.

Music by sculpture at the Sarlat la Canéda Art Gallery

Cie Des Lieux & Des Êtres

Agenda

Sophie Leleu will be back on stage soon.

02/05/2026

Creation / Présence Compositrices festival

Creation of a piece for choir based on a text by Gersande de Sabran for the Présence Compositrices festival at Abbaye de la Celle - Commissioned by Présence Compositrices

03/04/2026

Drumming / Scènes du Golfe Vannes

Drumming by S.Reich with the Links ensemble at Scènes du Golfe

05/03/2026

Golem / Teatro del Canal Madrid

March 5 to 7, 2026: Sophie sings and plays harp on tour in Amos Gitaï's "Golem" at Madrid's Teatro Del Canal for 3 dates.