Sophie Harmsen travelled extensively at an early age, her parents being German diplomats, and continues this in her professional career as an internationally successful and acclaimed mezzosoprano.Concerts and Opera productions have enabled her to experience some of the worlds most beautiful concert halls and opera houses as the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro Real in Madrid, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie de Paris, Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Sophie is frequently and recurringly invited to perform with symphony orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, SWR Symphonieorchester (Pablo Heras-Casado), Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest (Jos van Veldhoven), Orchestre National de France (Václav Luks), musicAeterna (Teodor Currentzis), Konzerthausorchester Berlin (Iván Fischer), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker (Ádám Fischer), Symphoniker Hamburg (Sylvain Cambreling, Pablo Gonzales), NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (Thomas Hengelbrock), MDR Sinfonieorchester (Dennis Russell Davies, Alexander Liebreich), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Philippe Herreweghe, Manfred Honeck, Maxim Emelyanychev), Wiener Symphoniker (Constantinos Carydis), the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Harding), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Andreas Spering), Akamus Berlin (u.a. René Jacobs) and the Freiburger Barockorchester (Jérémie Rhorer).
She makes his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.