Sofia Ribeiro

Sofia Ribeiro is a singer, composer and improviser from Portugal. With a solid background in jazz studies, a deep connection to Portuguese traditional music and endless hours of listening to Brazilian legendary musicians, Sofia’s artistry challenges the boundaries of music labels. With ten albums as a leader, she has been performing intensively in Europe, South America and United States for the past 18 years. She won the first prize at “Voicingers” (Poland) and “Crest Jazz Vocal” (France), and the second prize at “Young Jazz Singers” (Belgium). Her album “Ar” won the revelation prize from the French magazine “Jazzman”. She has a degree in ‘Jazz Performance’ from ESMAE (Portugal) and a master degree from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and did one-year exchange programs at ESMUC (Barcelona), Berklee College of Music (Boston) and CNSMD (Paris). She completed Rhiannon's ‘All the Way In' improvisation advanced course and was selected to be her assistant in 2017. Sofia was a teacher at Bobby McFerrin’s Circle Songs course in Omega, a speaker at TEDx CESA (Colombia) and an artist in residence at the Carnegie Hall.