Sofia Roubati

Sofia Roubati is a composer for media and film and a saxophone player. She splits her time between Athens, London and New York. Fascinated with the relationship between music and the moving image, Sofia seeks to use her platform to explore issues related to immigration, gender equality, and climate change and shed some light on how these themes impact communities. 

Currently, she is working on various projects in the UK, USA and Europe. She composed the score for the feature length documentary Smiles by Laila Bensaad-Johnson, that follows Algerians from the Liberation War of '54 - '62 who lead the youth in an uprising against a reformed government that has held power for two decades. and the short-documentary called Reverberations by Yara El Murr, that explores inherited war memories and intergenerational trauma in Beirut and made its debut at the Beirut Women Film Festival in March 2022. She has also composed music for the National Youth Ballet, Tedx AU Athens, Hotline a series on Amazon Prime & Revolt TV and other other projects such as theatrical plays and fashion shows. Her music has been debuted amongst others at Atlanta Shortfest (USA), Dallas Dance Film Festival (USA), Miami Light Screendance festival(USA),Cinedanza Festival (ITA),Newark IFF, Brighton Rocks Film Festival and This is England FF.

Her score for Beyond the Plaques commissioned by the National Youth Ballet and English Heritage has been awarded in the Best Soundtrack category at International Istanbul Short Film Fest & The Writer’s Journey and the Budapest Short Cut Film Fest and was a nominee for BEST SCORE at the prestigious International Sound & Film Music Festival 2025.

She is also developing the sonic branding of various companies such as the Open Data Institute in London and Olivian Groves in Athens, Greece.

Sofia is a member of The Alliance for Women Film Composers and a voting member of the World Soundtrack Awards.

She also selected to participate in the Creative Access Thrive Development Programme 2024-2025, supported by Creative Access in partnership with Grammy award winning & BAFTA nominated composer Lorne Balfe.

She has formed the band ‘Yiasena’ alongside jazz guitarist Ozenc Duzenli. A band, based in London, that brings together sounds from Turkey, Greece, Azerbaijan and other countries that are musically and culturally related and infuses them with the idiom of jazz, create new compositions and arrangements. 

Sofia represented Greece as a saxophonist in The Earth Orchestra project where she recorded ‘Together is Beautiful’ by well-known composer George Fenton, at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Sofia Roubati was born in Athens, Greece. She has been studying music from a very young age. She started her formal studies in classical piano at the age of seven. She studied Jazz Performance at Middlesex University in  London, BA (Hons) Jazz (specialising in saxophone). Sofia holds a Masters Degree in Music for Film and Media from New York University, where she studied under Eric Hachikian. She is a recipient of the Alan Menken Scholarship for the academic year 2020-2021.  

Throughout these years Sofia participated in various ensembles as a saxophone player, and performed in major venues across Greece such as National Opera, Theatro Vrachon ‘Melina Merkouri’ and across London such as Kansas Smitty’s.