Sophie Trudeau

Biography

Sophie Trudeau is a Canadian musician from Montreal, celebrated for her violin work in the influential post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor. She is also a co-founder of the related project, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, where her contributions on violin and vocals are central to the band's sound. A versatile multi-instrumentalist, she also plays trumpet and bass guitar. Her classically-trained yet raw and emotive style has been a defining feature of the Montreal experimental music scene since the late 1990s, with her work appearing on seminal albums like 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven' and released by labels such as #Constellation# and #Kranky#.