Sonia Allori is a Scottish/Italian composer, performer, researcher and music therapist. Her PhD in composition explored music, text and gender and her practice has a combination of words and music at its core together with inclusion and an insatiable curiosity for all things. She is a multi-instrumentalist and has been known to sing from time to time. Her work is often inspired by nature and an appreciation of humour in everyday life. Sonia is a performer/ composer with Sonic Bothy (an inclusive experimental music ensemble based in Glasgow) and is researching D/deaf performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 

Recent commissions are: Deconstructing Tartan (2023) – Drake Music Scotland/ Sound Festival – Clarinet & accordion; Random eddies (in the space-time continuum) (2023) – Drake Music Scotland – Piano, EWI, clarinet & track; Robots & Dinosaurs (2024) – Drake Music Scotland/ Nordic Days – Baritone & digital instruments; The Goddess of Ballachulish (2024) – Illuminate Scotland Concert Series – Soprano & cello.

Current work in 2025 includes Adventures in Captioning, which explores text, improvisation, live descriptive captioning and AI auto-captioning. Later in the year, there will be a new experimental musical called Performing Identity, which will be performed live on Zoom.