Cuban-Chinese artist, producer, and composer SUUVI is carving out a singular space at the intersection of contemporary music, performance art, and emerging technology. Building a universe entirely her own, she works across music, movement, narrative, and visual media to create immersive experiences that blur the boundaries between concert, installation, and performance. Visceral, cinematic, and emotionally charged, her work transforms sound into a multidimensional artistic language.
In 2026, SUUVI unveils REGENESIS, an ambitious new album and multidisciplinary performance work exploring the cycles of death, rebirth, and renewal. Following its London debut at the Barbican Centre, the full-scale production premieres at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Hall complex at REDCAT’s NOW Festival, followed by a New York premiere. Produced and directed by SUUVI, the work expands her original compositions into an immersive multimedia experience combining cinematic electronic soundscapes, virtuosic cello performance, contemporary dance, and visual art.
Beyond the stage, SUUVI's practice explores the intersection of art, identity, and human consciousness, driven by a commitment to advocacy for mental health and personal transformation. Her debut album, Dark Therapy (2025), was a neuroscience-informed experience conceived for deep listening, introspection, and emotional healing. Unveiled at Google X's headquarters, the project became a catalyst for her work in neuroarts and mental health advocacy, leading to international performances and speaking engagements exploring art's capacity to heal, connect, and inspire change. Her subsequent audiovisual work, Dark Star (2025), was commissioned for World Mental Health Day and channels her personal mental health journey into an intimate artistic self-portrait challenging stigma and fostering dialogue.
SUUVI's exploration of emerging technology extends beyond electronic music production into generative art, data-driven composition, and interactive multimedia. Her experimental works have transformed EEG brainwave activity and other forms of data into evolving sonic and visual environments, creating new connections between human consciousness and artistic expression. In her live productions and installations, she integrates cinematic projections, generative visuals, and immersive technologies to create experiences in which music, image, and movement exist in dialogue.
Dance is a defining dimension of SUUVI’s artistic practice, spanning classical ballet, contemporary dance, and experimental performance. She has created original compositions, short films, live performances, and installations in collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and artists from leading companies including San Francisco Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, The Dutch National Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, and L.A. Dance Project. Moving beyond traditional relationships between music and choreography, her work explores the interplay of sound, movement, and visual storytelling, creating interdisciplinary experiences in which music and the body become inseparable forms of expression.
SUUVI began studying cello at age two and entered The Juilliard School at ten, studying cello, piano, and composition. She continued her musical education at Le Conservatoire de Paris and The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin before establishing an international career as a classical soloist, performing on renowned stages including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Berlin Philharmonie, and Fondation Louis Vuitton. Her artistic interests extended beyond music through studies in film at Columbia University, visual art at MoMA, and drama at Juilliard and The Stella Adler Academy. She later joined Hans Zimmer's live show, touring arenas worldwide as featured solo cellist.
Drawing on this foundation across music, cinema, and visual art, SUUVI forged her own path as an independent composer, producer, and multidisciplinary artist. Her creative practice now spans live performance, recording, speaking, music production, and composition for film, television, contemporary dance, theater, and installations. With a particular affinity for visual storytelling, her work explores the relationship between music, narrative, and emotion. Equally at home in the worlds of contemporary art and popular culture, she moves fluidly between experimental artistic practices and commercial productions, bringing emotional depth, creative authorship, and an unmistakably personal perspective to everything she creates.
Full bio below.
SUUVI (aka Sophia Bacelar/唐凝智) was born in 1996 in the United States to a family of Cuban and Chinese political refugees. Being raised in a multicultural and multilingual environment deeply impacted her sense of identity and place in the world and later informed her artistry and career path.
Her journey began as a child prodigy. Influenced by her father, a cellist and luthier, she began studying cello at age two and was accepted to Juilliard at ten years old, where she studied cello, piano, and composition and embarked on the rigorous pursuit of becoming a classical soloist. During this time, she also studied visual art and curation at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy.
As a teenager, she began traveling to Europe and Asia to compete in international competitions and, after graduating from high school with honors at age 15, moved alone to Paris where she completed an undergraduate degree at Le Conservatoire de Paris in two years, followed by a postgrad at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. During this time, she also held a C-Suite executive position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology startup, Classeek, where she focused on the development of tools for artists through artificial intelligence and technology.
At age 20, she was given her first yearlong residency at La Fondation Louis Vuitton, which marked the start of an international career performing on some of the world’s most renowned stages, including Carnegie Hall, The Berlin Philharmonie, Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, The Tonhalle Zürich, Victoria Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Martin-In-The-Fields, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and more.
In 2019, she was the only cellist awarded a Celia Asher Fellowship to Juilliard’s prestigious Artist Diploma program and returned to NY where, in addition to music, she studied acting in Juilliard’s drama department and film at Columbia University. During this time, her interest in cross-disciplinary, collaborative work was born and resulted in her winning Juilliard’s Leo B. Ruiz Prize.
She was also the recipient of three career development grants, through which she developed her early multidisciplinary projects including collaborations with San Francisco Ballet and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Following a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in 2021, SUUVI was scouted by Hans Zimmer and moved to Los Angeles, joining the cast of his live show and touring as featured soloist in arenas worldwide. During this time, she also developed an interest in education, social impact, advocacy, and philanthropy and served as ambassador for The Grammy Music Education Coalition, board member of BODYTRAFFIC, and artist-in-residence at San Francisco Conservatory’s Technology and Applied Composition Department (SFCM), and Chair of Music and Performing/Fine Arts for The Impact Guild.
Through her work at SFCM, she began experimenting with the application of electronic music production and contemporary technology to her musical sound, eventually resulting in a BMI Composer Award for “Riven”, a piece for cello and electronics.
As her artistic voice and sonic palette expanded, SUUVI began working with artists across a wide variety of mediums and is now frequently called upon as a cross-disciplinary collaborator, producer, composer, and speaker in addition to her work as a solo cellist.
In recent years, she has created original works and short films with dancers and choreographers from San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, The Dutch National Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Jacob Jonas The Company, and more. She has also created original live scores for dance and theater companies BODYTRAFFIC and Theatre Roscious, both of which premiered in Los Angeles at The Wallis and The Getty Villa in 2023.
As a speaker and advocate for equality and mental health awareness, she has appeared on national television and prominent stages—including Google X and The Javits Center—and has presented her work at major conferences, foundations, and universities such as J.P. Morgan Week, The Milken Institute, YPO, The Climate Reality Project, Bloom, BrainMind, The Impact Guild, UTA Foundation, and NYU, using her platform to amplify conversations around art, technology, identity, inclusion, and healing.
She has also acted as ambassador and performed for global brands including JP Morgan, Harry Winston, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dries Van Noten, Alexis Bittar, Pomellato, NYFW, and GEWA—who also commissioned her to design a custom-painted cello case featured in their worldwide advertising campaigns.
Her musical versatility and genre-fluid approach as a performer, producer, and composer have led to collaborations with artists from a variety of genres ranging from classical, jazz, Latin, and film to pop, R&B, hip-hop, rock, and electronic, as well as work for Disney, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Live Nation, The Violin Channel, Medici.tv, WQXR, Radio France, and more.
In 2024, she collaborated with pianist Natalie Tenenbaum and rapper D Smoke on Standard Repertoire, Vol. 1, and released a collection of Twelve Etudes for cello and piano with composer Paul Leonard-Morgan.
The following year, she launched Dark Therapy, an interdisciplinary project combining neuroscience, music, and immersive storytelling to explore healing through sound, silence, and self-reflection. Her subsequent audiovisual work, Dark Star, commissioned for World Mental Health Day, further expanded her practice into experimental film, spatial audio, and autobiographical storytelling.
In 2026, SUUVI's expanding practice culminates in REGENESIS, an original album and multidisciplinary performance work bringing together electronic composition, virtuosic cello, contemporary dance, and cinematic visual art.
