Sofia
Jernberg Voice artist

Sofia Jernberg, born in Ethiopia and raised in Vietnam and Sweden, is an exceptional singer/vocal artist and composer. She studied jazz and composition in Sweden and lives and works in Stockholm. Her work focuses on unconventional techniques and sounds, such as non-verbal vocalisation, split tones, toneless singing and distortion. Music theatre and contemporary opera play an important role in Jernberg's artistic work. She has embodied roles written explicitly for her in new works such as ‹Folie à Deux› by Emily Hall and ‹UR_› by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. She performed the production ‹PIERROT LUNAIRE› directed by Marlene Monteiro Freitas as a soloist together with Klangforum Wien at the Wiener Festwochen 2021, the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and at the Festival d'Automne à Paris in 2022. In the film ‹Union of the North› by Matthew Barney, Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson she was seen as a singer. In 2021, she premiered Chaya Czernowin's ‹Atara› with the RSO Vienna at the Musikverein Wien at Wien Modern. In 2023, she made her debuts with Collegium Novum Zurich, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg and Lucerne Festival Forward. In 2025, she will sing the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin's work ‹No!› with the LA Phil New Music Group at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles and the German premiere with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. She will also make her debut at the Armory Hall New York in 2025.