Miriam Ast

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Miriam Ast (* 1989 in Speyer ) is a German jazz musician ( vocals , alto saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Ast studied jazz singing and saxophone at the Mainz University of Music since 2009 . In 2010 she performed with her quartet at the Federal Garden Show in Koblenz. From 2011 to 2013 she was a singer in the vocal ensemble of the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra . She graduated with honors from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2016 with a Masters degree .

Ast was able to draw attention to itself through the Cathedral project with Vitold Rek and Peter Reiter and through the concert Tribute to Ella & Louis with Kai Werth in the jazz series Treffpunkt Jazz . She also belonged to the band The Ropesh . She was also on stage with John Taylor , Glauco Venier , Matthias Nadolny , Maria Pia De Vito , Gerd Dudek , Sebastian Sternal , Klezmers Techter , the free improvisation group We be 3 and Giora Feidman .

Ast has been a member of the London Vocal Project since 2015 under the direction of Pete Churchill , with whom she performed at the EFG London Jazz Festival and the Cambridge Jazz Festival. With the vocal group, she was part of the Miles Ahead Project , an adaptation of Gil Evans' instrumental album for voices in collaboration with Jon Hendricks , which premiered in New York in 2017. She is currently working in her own quintet and in a duo with the Spanish pianist Victor Gutierrez, with whom she released the album Secret Songs on Mons Records in 2018 . She can also be heard on records with The Ropesh , Klezmers Töchter ( Mayim ) and the Bujazzo ( 25 ).

Ast is a lecturer at Leeds College of Music.

Prizes and awards

In 2010 she won first prize at Jugend jazzt with her quartet . In 2013 she won the Young German Jazz Prize Osnabrück with the band The Ropesh . She was one of seven selected semi-finalists at the Shure Montreux Jazz Festival Voice Competition 2017. In the same year she was awarded the prize for best vocal group at the International Jazz Competition in Bucharest with the Ast / Gutierrez duo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography
  2. ↑ Cathedral (JazzInitiative Frankfurt)
  3. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  4. ↑ The Ropesh (BauerStudios)
  5. ^ Bujazzo discography
personal data
SURNAME Ast, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (vocals, alto saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer