Catalog & Projects of Creations

Projects in the pipeline

“Des oiseaux dans mes racines”

Upcoming Creation

To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the Orchestre National d’Auvergne Rhône-Alpes commissioned a work to open their concert program on September 25 and 26 at the Opéra-Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand and on September 27, 2026 at the Opéra de Vichy.

Durée : 5’16

“In this piece, I began with a recording of birdsong that I transcribed onto paper and gradually developed into a melody that becomes a vibrant dance, infusing the entire orchestra.

This piece reflects on the origins of our singing, which stem from our imitation of the primitive songs of birds, ultimately giving rise to the melody that lies at the heart of our lives.

“This work is intended as a testament to our shared heritage from nature. Through our memories and our roots, we are intimately connected to it. “

“Animal”

Upcoming Creation

Selected for the finals of the Unanimes Composition Competition organized by the AFO —creation of a symphonic work to be premiered on October 1, 2026, in Paris bythe Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.

Durée 8’10

“This piece is a tribute to the animal world. It is conceived as a portrait of an animal, inviting our gaze to explore its body: its mouth, ears, fur, limbs, heart, and soul. This encounter, which inspires wonder at the embodiment and depth of being, prompts us to question our relationship to living things, to nature, and to otherness.

“Enigmes” (Riddles)

Upcoming Creation

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—world premiere—recording on October 31, 2026—Invitation to the program “Création Mondiale” on France Musique, hosted by Anne Montaron.

Durée : 10’07

“This play is based on excerpts from works by the French poet Louise Ackermann.

Here, I have attempted to recreate a consultation of the oracle at the Temple of Delphi in 400 B.C.: the entrance to the temple, the encounter with the Pythia—played by the soloist—the priests’ interpretation of her words, and the divine message—performed by the full chorus—leading us through a series of four riddles to be solved.

“At the heart of this celebration, the ritual is accompanied by percussion and keyboards, sweeping us away into the sibyl’s visionary and metaphysical trance.”

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

“Fin’amor”

Présence Compositrices festival order – New world creation vocal piece (soprano and 2 altos), nickelharpa or violon, cello and Tamtam writting on a Gersende de Sabran poem, trobairitz from XIIIth century.

Festival Présence Compositrices – Abbaye de la Celle – 2nd of Mai 2026 – Trio Nota and musicians

4’10

“Fin’amor, from its translation amour pur et fin comme de l’or (pure, fine love as fine as gold), was a love language practiced in epistolary form. The lovers wrote poems and songs to each other, sometimes without ever having met.

This platonic, fantasized, disembodied love, rooted in the imaginary, is the inspiration for a piece I wanted to build on the pulsation of a heartbeat. The cello ostinato builds tension, plunging us into the painful expectation of this woman driven by her emotions, exasperated by her lover’s passivity.”

“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

Soloist Quartet for Violin, Flute, Bass Clarinet, and Cello , as part of the “Concert Eclats 2.1” at the CRR in 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

Durée : 10’00

“The body is the soul’s workshop, where the mind comes to practice its scales.” Built from fragments of texts by the mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the piece “Vision,” composed by Sophie Leleu, invites the listener to delve into their inner self, imagining the states experienced and traversed 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.

30/10/2026

Puzzles / World Premiere

As part of Anne Montaron’s program “Création Mondiale,” my piece “Enigmes,” composed for mezzo-soprano, large mixed choir, prepared piano, and percussion, will be premiered by the Radio France Grand Choir, Marie-George Monet, Caroline Cren, and Emmanuel Jacquet, under the direction of Catherine Simonpietri. It will be broadcast on France Musique in November 2026.

01/10/2026

ANIMAL / Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

As a finalist in the "Unanimes" international composition competition, my piece "Animal" for chamber orchestra will be premiered by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra at Studio 104 of the Maison de la Radio, conducted by Felix Bénati. The concert will be broadcast on France Musique.

27/09/2026

Birds in My Roots


Premiere of my new piece, "Des oiseaux dans mes racines," for string orchestra and percussion at the Vichy Opera House as part of the concert celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes National Orchestra—commissioned by ONAURA