MIRIAM AST
Genres: Vocal Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Germany

Miriam Ast is an international jazz vocalist, band leader and music conservatoire lecturer. In October 2024, she became principal lecturer and leader of the jazz vocal class at Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Reinette van Zijtveld-Lustig. She released her debut album ‘Secret Songs’ in 2018, featuring the acclaimed British saxophonist Stan Sulzmann and played a following release tour in the UK and her home country Germany with pianist Victor Gutierrez. She won Best Vocalist Award in 2017 and was a semi-finalist of the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice competition that same year. She was a senior lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire in the north of England from 2017- 2021 and since her return to Germany, she has been teaching  jazz singing at the music conservatoire in Freiburg and at Würzburg university of Music. Miriam grew up in Speyer, Germany in a musical family, learning the read more...