Her academic training and extensive experience as an accompanist pianist for singers have sparked a particular interest in a detailed language in her arrangements for both harp and piano in their role of supporting the prominence of the voice.
Although, due to her personal motivation for composition as a vital necessity and the fact that she performs her own songs, Tiina Soé could be identified as a Singer/Songwriter; upon analyzing her compositions, lyrics, and arrangements for her accompanying instruments in depth, it is discovered that her music goes beyond the stereotype.
The depth in her lyrics, her select melodies and harmonies, and particularly the increased prominence of harp and piano through the intense dialogue with the voice as a sensitive and fine accompaniment, characterize her as a composer and performer of high sensitivity in a genre free from classification.
Without seeking belonging to a particular musical genre, Tiina Soé moves lightly between elements of pop, jazz, bossa nova, Argentine tango, and classical music.
Her interest as a composer focuses mainly on voice, harp, and piano. The starting point of each of her creations lies in emotion, and with it, poetry. Fascinated by the process of developing an arrangement, the composition grows inspired. The more instruments are incorporated into the creation process, the more it opens up to fantasy. The composition begins to take on its own life until it reaches a symphonic format, which elevates the original seed of a theme to its greatest enhancement.
From her beginnings as a composer to the present day, Tiina Soé has written several works for chamber ensemble, symphony orchestra, and, with greater interest, more than 45 songs for voice and piano or harp. Despite the great fascination she feels for composition elevated to the symphonic format, she has never stopped seeing herself as nothing more than what she loves to do most… writing and performing… a singer who writes her own songs… a Singer/Songwriter.




