Soddy was born in Oxford and trained as a chorister at Magdalen College in his home town before beginning his conducting and vocal studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Subsequently, Soddy studied musicology and music analysis at Cambridge on a choral scholarship from Selwyn College.
In the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival from 2013 to 2015, he took over the musical study direction alongside Kirill Petrenko.
[2] Since the beginning of the 2016–17 season, Soddy has been General Music Director at the Mannheim National Theatre and has conducted the premieres of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, Schumann's Genoveva, Beethoven's Fidelio and Mozart's Don Giovanni as well as numerous revivals, including Hansel and Gretel, Madama Butterfly, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Parsifal.
He also champions works rarely heard in Germany such as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem[4] and the premiere of symphonic commissions.