Miriam Ast

Miri­am Ast’s biog­ra­phy stands out for its pletho­ra of musi­cal and geo­graph­i­cal bound­ary-cross­ings. The Ger­man born jazz singer and sax­o­phon­ist Miri­am Ast grad­u­at­ed in 2016 with dis­tinc­tion from her mas­ter stud­ies at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Music in Lon­don. She quick­ly estab­lished her­self as an up and com­ing jazz vocal­ist and impro­vis­er in the city, col­lab­o­rat­ing with musi­cians such as Stan Sulz­mann and releas­ing her debut album Secret Songs in 2018 to crit­i­cal acclaim.

Hav­ing moved back to Ger­many in 2021, Miri­am Ast has now formed a new uncon­ven­tion­al trio with jazz pianist Daniel Pran­dl and crossover cel­list Jörg Brinkmann.

Her new album con­sists of mod­ern jazz arrange­ments of folk tunes from through­out Europe. In this project, Miri­am Ast draws from her musi­cal and cul­tur­al expe­ri­ences from her time in Lon­don and explores Europe’s rich her­itage with her own dis­tinct voice.