Sofía Rei's biography |  Argentina

Biography

Singer and composer Sofía Rei was born in Argentina. She began singing at the

Colón Theater Children’s Choir. She studied at the Carlos López Buchardo National

Conservatory of Music and earned a master’s at the New England Conservatory (Boston, United States). She has sung at the Montreal Jazz Fest (Canada) and at New York’s

Blue Note and Village Vanguard, among other venues. In 2007, she toured Europe

and the United States as the vocalist of Maria Schneider’s big band and participated

in the premiere of Cerulean Skies at the Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, for the

250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. In 2008, she was featured with Bobby McFerrin in

Instant Opera, a fully improvised opera based on the story of the Tower of Babel, at the

Carnegie Hall. She was a founding member of John Zorn’s Mycale, and participated in

his series Masada. She sings in Aurea, a project led by pianist and composer Geoffrey

Keezer. Sofía is currently a faculty member of the vocal department at Berklee College

of Music (Boston). Her solo album Sube azul (World Village-Harmonia Mundi) won an

Independent Music award in the category Rhythms of the World. At this year’s BAJ, she

will perform De tierra y oro, an album of songs inspired by her travels around the world. On this occasion, she will be accompanied by Bernardo Monk (saxes), Sebastián

Espósito (guitar), Mariano Martos (bass) and Facundo Guevara (percussion).