Victor Somma

Much of what I write is inspired by sacred texts, and I believe this is because music is a tool for connecting us with a reality prior to discourse, a reality beyond human understandings about existence.

Although music is not a religion in itself, it can serve as an instrument for re-connection (religare) which, for me, serves its highest purpose.

In my journey so far, I’ve been fortunate to learn from masters such as Luc Van Hove, while doing my master’s in composition at KU-Leuven in Belgium; I also learned a great deal from other masters outside the academic context such as Egberto Gismonti and Antonio Guerreiro.

The flute has been my voice with which I try to say things speech can't bear.

Once, many years ago, I had a dream in which a mysterious woman played the flute with a sonority so special I had never heard. Since then, I've been looking for a way to reproduce that sound and all my research has been aimed at discovering how to realize in my performance all the richness my subconscious showed me through that enigmatic figure.

I was lucky to encounter the inspiration of masters such as Curt Schroeter, Keith Underwood, Anders Ljungar-Chapelon and Philippe Benoit and to play in different orchestras under the baton of Kurt Masur, Roberto Duarte and Noël Devos.

However, my path took me away from the orchestras; my investigation as a flutist merges with that of a composer.