Zygmund de Somogyi

Zygmund de Somogyi (b. 1996) is a British-Filipino composer and interdisciplinary artist.

Drawing from their punk rock background and DIY ethics, they employ a uniquely multifaceted approach to composition across contemporary classical, opera, theatre, film, and electronic music; their recent works have explored themes of online folklore, collaborative worldbuilding, queer identity, metamodern aesthetics, and contradictory recontextualisations of genre and form.

Zygmund is a Royal Philharmonic Society composer of 2025; their second opera URSA MINOR, with librettist Alexia Peniguel, premiered in 2024 in association with the Royal Ballet & Opera, and they were recently awarded a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellowship and Susan Horvath CMW Commission at the Composers Conference.

Zygmund studied Composition at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and Opera Making and Writing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where they're currently undertaking a Junior Fellowship.