Sonia Schiavone

Sonia Schiavone. A Turinese singer, she began her studies of classical music at the age of seven, later continuing in the field of jazz music, by following many courses and workshops with internationally famous teachers, such as Sheila Jordan, Sandy Patton, Maria Pia De Vito, Bob Stoloff, Diana Torto, Garry Dial, John Riley, Mike Abene, John Taylor, Ben Allison, Stefano Battaglia and many others.

She earned a degree in Architecture at the Politecnico of Turin with the highest score and with honours, and a degree in Jazz at the Conservatory Niccolò Paganini of Genoa with a dissertation about Wayne Shorter’s music, under the supervision of Paolo Silvestri. Over the years her versatile interests have encompassed voice and vocality in the broadest possible meaning; jazz, exploring all of its styles; gospel, operatic singing, a cappella vocal music; the development of childhood musicianship; harmonic singing; extemporaneous vocal improvisation. As a professional musician, she co-operated for twenty years with numerous jazz musicians. She performed in numerous festivals and seasons with her own eponymous projects. In the last twenty years, she has also actively and passionately focused on musical education. She has been awarded numerous prizes and honours at singing competitions of jazz, pop and gospel music, both as a performer and as a songwriter, including a First Prize at the “Gospel Showcase 2002”, during the Prima Rassegna Internazionale di Gospel, Blues, Spiritual & Black Music "Gospel in Castelbrando" in Cison di Valmarino (TV), organized by Cheryl Porter; First Prize at the “Talents 2002” Competition, in the section dedicated to jazz singing, organized by the Istituto musicale di Rivoli (Turin; the Diploma of Honour at the TIM Torneo Internazionale di Musica, Moncalieri (Turin), section Jazz; in 2012 she was a finalist at the XII Concorso Internazionale “Scrivere in Jazz” in Sassari – section Singing; in 2017 she was a finalist at the "19° Biella Festival Autori e Cantautori" with her original work "In viaggio".