LATEST NEWS
May 6, 2010
I will be interviewed today at Antena 1 at 13h30, to talk about the new CD!
May, 5 2010
This month I will be on tour in Portugal to release my new cd "Porto", a project with Gui Duvignau! The first concert will be on the 7th of May at Auditório de Espinho, with Gui Duvignau on the doublebass, João Salcedo on the piano and Thibault Perriard on drums. It will be a special evening with the participation of Luísa Vieira on the flute and a group of 10 voices that will sing an arrangement of the song "Era um redondo vocábulo". Visit agenda!
March 24, 2010
Tomorrow I will travel to Portugal for three concerts in duo with Marc Demuth, in Lisbon and Barreiro. The last concert will be at Centro Cultural de Belém, recorded live for Antena 2, a collaboration with the European Broadcast Union! Visit agenda!
March 17, 2010
Tomorrow I will perform at 18h30 at Philarmonie (Luxembourg), with the Marc Demuth Quartet!
March 12, 2010
The 14th of March I will perform with my quartet at QQTEC, in Hilden (Germany) and it will be recorded by the prestigious WDR radio!
March 3, 2010
This month I will be on tour in Barcelona! I will perform with OSSIA and also in duo with Bartolomeo Barenghi. I will teach workshops at "Conservatori Superior Liceu" and "L'aula de Musica". Visit agenda!
February 26, 2010
Tomorrow I will perform with my new quartet, at the Jazz Station (Brussels), with Nicola Andrioli (piano), Marc Demuth (doublebass) and Paul Wiltgen (drums). We will play my own compositions, including some new songs!"
February 16, 2010
Tomorrow I will perform in the Fado Festival at Theatre 13, in Paris, with Casimiro Silva (guitar) and Philippe de Souza (Portuguese guitar)!
February 1, 2010
Back to Europe after an amazing trip to Hawaii and New York, I will be on tour the upcoming week, in duo with Marc Demuth. Visit agenda! January 6, 2010
During tis month I will go on a big trip to Hawaii and New York! I was selected to participate at the Advanced Improvisation Retreat in Hale Kai (Big Island of Hawaii) directed by Rhiannon, sponsored by G.D.A.!
December 15, 2009
Florian Weber, a fantastic German piano player that is part of the new Lee Konitz group, will come to Portugal tomorrow for two concerts in duo, in Braga and Lisboa. Visit agenda!
December 10, 2009
Sofia was invited to teach a master class at the the school of the Hot Club! It will happen the 17th of December at 16h.
November 29, 2009
During the next week Sofia and Gui Duvignau will be recording a new CD, in Paris, with great musicians like Leonardo Montana, João Salcedo, Mathieu Gramoli and Thibault Perriard, among others.
November 10, 2009
This month, Sofia will be on tour in Galiza, Spain, with Matteo Bortone (doublebass), Francesco Diodati (guitar) and Leandro Leonet (drums). The concerts are part of the Festival Outonalidades. Visit agenda!
October 6, 2009
Between the 7th and the 11th of October, Sofia will be on tour with OSSIA in Madrid. Visit agenda!
October 5, 2009
Sofia will participate as a guest in a concert of André Fernandes, tomorrow at 21h30, in Famalicão. With André Fernandes (guitar), Marcos Cavaleiro (drums) and Demian Cabaud (doublebass).
October 1, 2009
Tonight, Sofia will do a Fado concert at Passage, Paris, with Casimiro Silva (guitar) and Philippe de Souza (portuguese guitar).
August 13, 2009
There is a new article about Sofia Ribeiro at "OJE". To read it, please visit:
>Quando o jazz tem o fado na alma
August 10, 2009
Sofia Ribeiro and Marc Demuth Duo will perform at the prestigious Sunset Jazz Club, in Paris, on the 8th of September. To buy tickets online, please visit:
>Sunset
July 28, 2009
Marc and Sofia will perform today during the sunset, in the mountains in Atenor (Miranda do Douro), at the l Burro i l Gueiteiro festival!
July 16, 2009
"Marc Demuth 4tet feat. Sofia Ribeiro" will be on tour in Luxembourg and Germany in the end of July. Please visit agenda!
June 22, 2009
Sofia finished her master degree in jazz singing at the Brussels Conservatory, with great distinction.
June 15, 2009
Sofia will perform tomorrow night at the Jazz au Chellah Festival(Rabat, Marroc) with Marc Demuth 4tet.
May 09, 2009
Sofia and Marc will travel today to Poland, for a tour over the country. One of the concerts is at the Zory Easy Jazz Festival, a result of Sofia's first prize at the international competition "Voicingers 2008".
April 10, 2009
"Marc Demuth 4tet feat. Sofia Ribeiro" will be on tour in the north and center of Portugal, starting today. Please visit agenda!
April 02, 2009
Sofia will give another jazz vocals workshop on the 4th of April at Echternach Music School, Luxembourg. The workshop is open to anybody interested in vocal jazz.
March 24, 2009
Sofia Ribeiro, Matteo Bortone and Francesco Diodati will have a small tour in the north of Portugal in the end of March. Please visit agenda!
January 31, 2009
Today, in the portuguese newspaper "Correio da Manhã", there is an article about Marc and Sofia's duo concert at CCB on the 29th of Januay:

Sofia Ribeiro enchants CCB
“Não é Fácil o Amor”, from Janita Salomé, was the opening of Sofia Ribeiro and Marc Demuth's concert at "Centro Cultural de Belém" (CCB), in Lisbon, thursday evening, giving right away life to the singer's big vocal quality and the bassist's technicism. The interpreters empathy got over the room, making the audience ecstatic with jazz ballads classics and popular brazilian music. (...) But the concert's pearl was the version of “Ó Gente da Minha Terra”, from Amália Rodrigues, in a fabulous arrangement.
A.R. Correio da Manhã 31.01.2009
January 30, 2009
Sofia Ribeiro and Marc Demuth performed in duo at the prestigious Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, at the concert series Dose Dupla. To read an article about the concert and see some photos please visit:
>Jazz no País do Improviso
October 23, 2008
Sofia Ribeiro and Gui Duvignau Quartet will participate one more time at the festival Outonalidades, with concerts in Portugal and Spain.
October 17, 2008
Sofia will perform tonight at "Teatro Helena Sá e Costa" (Porto), with Steel Drumming, Miguel Guedes and JP Simões: a concert with the music of Zeca Afonso, in memory of David Sobral.
August 31, 2008
Sofia Ribeiro got the first prize at the first edition of the International Jazz Competition for Singing Musicians "Voicingers 2008"!The juri was presided by the legendary Norwegian vocalist Karin Krog, known, among other things, for her work with Dexter Gordon. The other members of the panel were Jorgos Skolias (famous Polish singer) and Pascal Anquetil (director of the Jazz Information Center in Paris and a member of the editorial committee of "Jazzman"). For more informations and photos, please visit:
>Voicingers 2008
July 4, 2008
Sofia was one of the 12 singers selected for the semi-finals of the International Jazz Competition for Singing Musicians "Voicingers 2008", which will take place in Zory, Poland, in the end of August.
June 1, 2008
In 2008/2009, Sofia will attend the second year of her master's degree in jazz singing at the prestigious National Conservatory in Paris (CNSMDP), where she was accepted with a scholarship with the program "Erasmus".
May 28, 2008
The children's book "Jardim do Arco-Íris", written by Manuela Ribeiro, with drawings from Susana Ribeiro and a CD with a song written by Gui Duvignau and Sofia Ribeiro, is for sale in Fnacs and bookshops. For more information, please visit:
>Jardim do Arco-Íris
May 1, 2008
The new CD "Orik" will be released this month in Luxembourg and Belgium. Visit agenda!
April 1, 2008
If you would like to watch online the concerts integrated at the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program in Washington, please visit:
>Jazz Ahead
February 17, 2008
Sofia will be giving a jazz vocal workshop once again at the "Echternach Music School", Luxembourg. The workshop is open to every singer interested in jazz vocals.
February 6, 2008
Among 114 applicants, Sofia has been selected to participate in the 2008 Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead residency program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC!! The Jazz Ahead program (March 17-28th, 2008) identifies outstanding, emerging young jazz artists, and brings them together under the tutelage of experienced artist-instructors who coach and counsel them, helping to polish their performance, composing and arranging skills. The week-long residency program will include daily workshops and rehearsals with established jazz artists, and will culminate in three concerts on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. For more informations please visit:
>Jazz Ahead
January 28, 2008
If you would like to buy the new CD "Orik" online please visit:
>CDBABY
January 2, 2008
Sofia Ribeiro and Marc Demuth will release their new CD with the project "Marc Demuth 4tet feat. Sofia Ribeiro", called "Orik". The first concerts will be from 10 to 16 of January in Portugal and Spain. To listen to some songs from the new CD, please visit:
>My Space
December 15, 2007
Sofia will perform with a new project in Luxembourg with Marc Demuth on the bass, Florian Weber (Germany) on the piano and Dennis Frehse (Germany) on drums. They will play mostly originals.
October 29, 2007
A new article has been written about Sofia Ribeiro at the Brazilian site Clube de Jazz:
>Clube de Jazz
October 27, 2007
Marc and Sofia will be on tour in Portugal in trio with the French guitar player Donald Regnier, performing in Porto, Lisbon, Mira and Maia. For more details visit agenda.
October 26, 2007
Sofia was invited to sing in a new project with the group Steel Drumming, singing songs from Zeca Afonso with arrangements from different composers, like Mário Laginha and Pedro Moreira. They will perform in Abrantes, Montijo and Torres Vedras.
October 4, 2007
This weekend Sofia Ribeiro & Marc Demuth Duo will perform in two international jazz festivals: the first one in Tondela, Portugal, opening for Magik Malik Orchestra, and in Waldbillig, Luxembourg, opening for Mikkel Ploug Group featuring Marc Turner. Visit agenda!
September11, 2007
Sofia entered the Conservatory of Brussels where she will do a master with David Linx.
July 1, 2007
Sofia will be giving a jazz vocal workshop at Echternach Music School, Luxembourg, on July 7 from 9am to 4pm.
June 6, 2007
Today at 7pm Sofia Ribeiro and Gui Duvignau 4tet will perform a concert in ESMAE (Porto) live in Antena 2. You cal also hear it through the website:
>Antena 2
May 30, 2007
Sofia will be interviewed by Rádio Clube Português on June 1st from 3h30 pm to 4pm.
April 3, 2007
Sofia will be on tour this month with Marc Demuth Quartet, performing in Belgium and Luxembourg. Check agenda! On the end of the tour they will record a new CD, live in L'Inoui (Luxembourg). Hope to see you there! For more information and reservations, please visit:
>www.inoui.lu
March 6, 2007
Marc and Sofia will perform the next days in Lisbon and Matosinhos. On thursday at 7pm they will perform a concert in "Museu da Música" live in Antena 2.
February 4, 2007
Sofia Ribeiro & Gui Duvignau Quartet will perform at HotFive on 8 and 9 of February with João Salcedo (piano) and Marcos Cavaleiro (drums). The program will include originals and also own arrangements of songs from different composers, like Betty Carter, Zeca Afonso and Erykah Badu.
December 8, 2006
Marc and Sofia invite the portuguese guitar player Nuno Ferreira to join their duo for a few gigs in December and January. Check agenda!
December 1, 2006
Sofia has a new project with the bassist and composer Gui Duvignau and they will perform in Maia and Paços de Ferreira, in Portugal. For more details check agenda.
November 15, 2006
Sofia invites the German singer and composer Insa Rudoplh to join her quartet for two gigs at the Bflat Jazz Club (Matosinhos). Check agenda!
September 25, 2006
Sofia is now based in her hometown, Porto in Portugal, where she teaches at ESMAE (Porto) and Sitio de Sons (Coimbra). July 20, 2006
Sofia will be on tour in Portugal (21 July - 5 August) with the new quintet Places performing original music: Jeff Davis (vibraphone), Federico Casagrande (guitar), Marc Demuth (bass) and Jorge Queijo (drums). Check agenda!
July 18, 2006
Sofia finishes her jazz singing degree in ESMAE (Porto) and is invited to teach there the next year as Fay Claassen's assistant and also to teach the preparatory course of jazz singing. For more information please visit: >www.esmae-ipp.pt
July 10, 2006
Marc and Sofia invite the Italian guitar player Peo Alfonsi to join them in a tour in Luxembourg from 12 to 15 of July. Check agenda for more details!
May 25, 2006
Marc and Sofia start a new project that consists in inviting guests to join their duo. The first guest is the vibraphone player Jeff Davis and they will be performing in the Hot Five in Porto on 26 and 27 of May.
May 2, 2006
Sofia is back in Europe from Boston and will be on tour with Marc Demuth 4tet from 4 to 8 of May in Belgium and Luxembourg. Check agenda!
March 22, 2006
Sofia is interviewed by José Duarte. Please visit:
>www.jazzportugal.ua.pt
March 14, 2006
Berklee College of Music selected Sofia Ribeiro to receive the Oliver Wagmann Memorial Scholarship valued at $9500, based on her 'outstanding achievement and contributions to the department'. This prize is offered to an 'outstanding vocalist demonstrating academic excellence at the college'.
March 12, 2006
Dança da Solidão will finally be released in Portugal!
Marc and Sofia will be on tour from 16th until 24th of March, promoting their new CD. Check agenda for more details!.
January 26, 2006
Dança da Solidão is on sale at CD Baby!
>www.cdbaby.com
January 19, 2006
Sofia goes back to Boston (change of plans!) to attend one more semester at Berklee College of Music where she will be living until the beginning of May.
January 10, 2006
Sofia Ribeiro and Marc Demuth Duo CD Dança da Solidão will be released in Luxembourg. The concert and release party will be on January 13 at Salle Robert Krieps (Abbaye Neumunster, Luxembourg City) at 8:30 pm.
October 9, 2005
Sofia wins the 2nd prize in the First Brussels International "Young Jazz Singers" Competition
Selected from 84 voices over 22 different countries (by Demo-CD) as one of the 15 semi-finalists, Sofia performed at The Music Village for press, local audiences and a panel of judges presided over by Universal-signed singer and composer David Linx. The other members of the panel were: Judy Niemack, Bruno Castellucci and local jazz journalists Andre Joassin and Luc De Baets.
Sofia was one of the 3 finalists that were chosen to perform on October 8 as part of the Brussels Audi Jazz Festival at the famous Ancienne Belgique concert hall. Sofia got the 2nd prize, behind Georgia Mancio (U.K.) in 1st and ahead Sophie Brous (Australia) in 3rd.
For photos/information visit:
>www.themusicvillage.com
October 6, 2005
Marc Demuth and Sofia Ribeiro will be finally recording their first CD! It will be recorded live at L'Inoui (Luxembourg) on 4th and 5th of October. Hope to see you there! For more information and reservations, please visit:
>www.inoui.lu
September 1, 2005
Sofia goes to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music for one semester, as an exchange program with E.S.M.A.E., the school where she has been doing her jazz degree.