Sofia Ribeiro

Sofia Ribeiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1978.
She has a diploma in jazz performance from "Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto", where she studied with Maria João and Fay Claassen. During her studies she did a one year exchange program in Barcelona at "Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya" and another one at the famous Berklee College of Music (Boston), that offered her a scholarship. She was a student of Bob Stoloff and was awarded the "Oliver Wagmann Memorial Scholarship", for an "outstanding vocalist demonstrating academic excellence at the college". Later she received a master's degree in jazz performance with "great distinction" from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she studied with David Linx. During her master's studies she went to study for one year at the prestigious "Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris" (CNSNDP) with an "Erasmus" scholarship.
She received the second prize of the first "Brussels International Young Jazz Singers Competition", Belgium, the first prize at the "International Jazz Competition for Singing Musicians: Voicingers", Poland, and the first prize at the "Crest Jazz Vocal" competition, France (in duo with Marc Demuth). In March 2008 she participated in the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).
She has performed in different venues in various countries, such as:
Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal), Sunset Jazz Club (Paris, France), Berklee Performance Center (Boston, U.S.A.), The National Theatre (London, U.K.), Philharmonie (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), Brussels Jazz Marathon (Brussels, Belgium), Euro Jazz Gala (Trier, Germany), Kennedy Center (Washington, U.S.A.), Jazz au Chellah (Rabat, Morocco) and Easy Jazz Festival (Zory, Poland).
She has recorded three CDs: "Dança da Solidão" (2006), in duo with Marc Demuth, "Orik" (2008) with the Marc Demuth 4tet and "Porto" (2010), in collaboration with Gui Duvignau.