Sofia Kiprskaya was born in 1991. Began to study music at the age of five. Currently a third-year student at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Anna Makarova).
From the 2008-2009 season she was a member of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and since 2011 she has been a member of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
Sofia Kiprskaya has been a prize-winner at numerous international harp competitions including the Concours Félix Godefroid (1st prize and Coq d’argent special prize of the Association of Harpists of France and Belgium, Namur, 2003), the Lily Laskine International Harp Competition (2nd prize, Deauville, France, 2005), the Franz Josef Reinl Stiftung Competition (1st prize, Munich, Germany, 2007), the Martine Géliot Competition (1st and special prize of the jury chairman, French composer Jacques Charpentier, Paris, France, 2008, following which she recorded a solo CD), the Vera Dulova Competition (2nd prize, Moscow, 2008), the Golden Harp competition (2nd prize and special prizes for the best performance of works by western European and contemporary composers, St Petersburg, 2009). At the II InternationalGolden Harpcompetition in St Petersburg in October 2011 she took 1st prize the special prize for the best performance of a work by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Moreover, Sofia Kiprskaya has received awards from the New NamesInterregional Charitable Foundation (2006) and the Vladimir Spivakov International Charitable Foundation (2008) and is a recipient of the Star of Prometheus scholarship established by the academic Dmitry Likhachev (2005), the Yuri Temirkanov Prize (2008), the Union of Concert Musicians of the Russian Federation Prize “For Outstanding Artistic Achievements and the Supremely Artistic Performance of Classical Music” (St Petersburg, 2008), the Hope of Russia prize (2009), a grant from the Young Talents federal programme of the Russian Ministry of Culture (2005-2007).
Took part in the VI European Harp Congress in France (Lyon, 2004) and the international festivals Virtuosi of the Planet(Kiev, 2008), Musical Olympus(2010) and Crescendo (2011); performed in recital at the World Harp Congress in Amsterdam in (2008).
