Miriam Ast Quintet
Miriam Ast Quintet
Entry Requirements: Under 18s to be accompanied by an appropriate adult
German jazz singer, saxophonist, composer and teacher based in London who graduated with top marks for an MA with distinction in jazz singing from the Royal Academy of Music in July 2016. She is also a senior lecturer at Leeds College of Music and was one of seven selected semi-finalists in the Shure Montreux Jazz Festival Voice Competition in Switzerland last year performing with some of the world's most talented jazz singers. She loves the jazz tradition as much as original music and likes to mix up the set with some of her favourite swing and bebop jazz standards in which she proves to be a virtuoso scat singer whilst also performing her own original compositions influenced by folk music, free improvisation and modern jazz. Within the quintet Miriam has brought together some of London’s most inspiring jazz musicians with the acclaimed Matt Anderson on sax, Alcyona Mic on piano, Huw Williams on bass and Ben Brown on percussion/drums.