Sofia Ribeiro

Sofia Ribeiro was born in Lisbon/Portugal in 1978. She finished recently her jazz singing degree in ESMAE (Porto, Portugal), where she studied with the famous singer Maria Joao and the dutch vocalist Fay Claassen. During her studies she did an exchange program in ESMUC (Barcelona), where she lived for one year and started playing with the Luxembourgish bass player Marc Demuth, with whom she recently recorded her first CD "Danca da Solidao", a duo of doublebass and voice. In September 2005 she went to study for one year (with a scolarship) at the famous Berklee College of Music (Boston, U.S.A.) where she studied with Bob Stoloff, among others, and was awarded with the “Oliver Wagmann Memorial Scholarship, for an outstanding vocalist demonstrating academic excellence at the college”.
She sang in different jazz festivals over Europe, like the Brussels Jazz Marathon (Belgium), FIMU (Belfort, France), Jazzfest Euricore Trier 2004 (Germany), Jazz and Blues Express Differdange (Luxembourg), Lagos Jazz (Portugal), Jazz 'In Tondela (Portugal) and Capital, Jazz (Paços de Ferreira, Portugal) and her recent performances include The Music Village (Brussels, Belgium), The Hopper (Antwerp, Belgium), L'Inoui (Luxembourg), Jazz Si Club (Barcelona), Berklee Performance Center (Boston), Sa Clau Jazz Club (Menorca, Spain), David Friend Recital Hall (Boston), Hot Club (Lisbon), Rundetaarn (Copenhague, Denmark), Millennium Stage (Washington) and Walderdorff (Trier, Germany).
Sofia did workshops with Judie Niemack, Gillyanne Kayes and Dominique Eade. She also participated in the 16th Jazz Workshop International in Trier with Norma Winstone and Maria Pia de Vito and in the Advanced Workshop of Improvisation in Terschelling Island, Holland, with the singer Rhiannon, member of the group Voicestra conducted by Bobby McFerrin. She got the second prize of the first Brussels International Young Jazz Singers Competition, in October 2005, organized by "The Music Village". In January 2008 she released her second CD "Orik" with the Marc Demuth Quartet. In March 2008 she got selected to participate at the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), that identifies outstanding, emerging young artists from all over the world.
She finished recently the first year of her master degree at the Brussels Conservatory (Brussels, Belgium) with David Linx, and will be going to Paris in September 2008 to do the second year at "Le Conservatoire de Paris" (CNSMDP) as an exchange student.
Sofia is teaching jazz singing at ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). real editor best profile tools real editor best profile tools
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