Sonja has been making music as long as she was old enough to speak, making up songs in the car and devouring her parents' record collection. Her mother recognized her aptitude and enrolled the "backseat radio" in piano lessons at the age of 7. After 12 years of piano lessons, four years of vocal training, and a B.A. in music composition, Sonja learned the business of being a professional musician while working as the Director of Education at the Harrisburg Symphony and performing as a vocalist with the Susquehanna Chorale.

In May of 2008, Sonja decided to strike out on her own and moved to Philadelphia to find work as a musician. Cat-sitter and dog-walker by day, she teaches piano and voice lessons around the city at night. She writes her own songs and currently performs on keys and vocals with The Marc Lomax Band (a reggae-blues-rock experience) and Smoke the Groove (folk-rock & Latin-infused dance music from Harrisburg).

With a penchant for analog synths and circuit-bending, Sonja has incorporated these electronic delights in previous projects for Moviate (film screenings, art festivals and more) with the Mystery Frogmen's Orkestra (also based in Harrisburg). For Moviate's screening of Nosferatu, the group created and performed an original soundtrack as strange and creepy as the movie itself.

Sonja's appetite for music is as vast as her range of influences -- concert music like Beethoven, Krenek, Weill and Rachmaninoff, choral music & oratorio, reggae, trip-hop, indie hip-hop, opera, musical theatre, post-rock, experimental & noise, jazz, blues, world music and good ol' piano rock all have a place in her lexicon.