Sofía Gómez Alberto is a Spanish violinist and violist currently studying for a Master of Performance with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Nathan Braude at the Royal College of Music, where she is an Antonio Brosa Award Holder.

In July 2022, Sofía completed her undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music with Lutsia Ibragimova and Yuri Zhislin, graduating with First Class Honours. Prior to her studies at the RCM, Sofía studied with Anna-Liisa Bezrodny at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and privately with Valeri Gazarian. Throughout her studies, Sofía has participated in masterclasses with violinists such as Maxim Vengerov, Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, Alina Ibragimova, Tanja Becker-Bender and Valentina Korolkova, and violists such as Nobuko Imai, Wenting Kang and Paul Cortese.

Passionate about chamber music, Sofía has played with various ensembles and performed in festivals such as the Chipping Campden Music Festival, Stamford International Music Festival and Musethica. Also a keen orchestral player, Sofía has taken part in several youth orchestras such as the European Union Youth Orchestra, Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, LGT Young Soloists and the Cuban-European Academy at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. She is also one of the violinists taking part in the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Pathway Scheme for the 2023/2024 academic year.

Sofía was recently awarded 3rd Prize at the 2023 Llanes International Viola Competition. Other prizes include the Viola Prize at the 2022 RCM Viola Competition and the 2018 Lutine Prize (Junior Guildhall).

Sofía plays on a Nicolò Gagliano violin and a Joseph Hill viola, both kindly on loan from the Royal College of Music.