Miriam Ast is a vocalist and composer working in Germany and the UK. In May 2023, she released her second album "Tales & Tongues", in which she reinterprets European folk songs in jazz arrangements.

In 2014, she began a Master's programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London. There she studied with Pete Churchill, Nia Lynn, Nick Smart and Norma Winstone. After graduating with honours, she spent five years working mainly in the UK as a jazz singer and teacher. She has performed with her own projects at EFG London Jazz Festivals and at the famous Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. In 2017, she won the Best Vocalist Prize at the international jazz competition in Bucharest. She released her debut album "Secret Songs" in 2018.

Ast was a lecturer in jazz singing at Leeds Conservatoire in northern England for four years and has taught at the Freiburg University of Music since moving to Germany in 2021.

Her fellow musicians in recent years have included Mannheim pianist Daniel Prandl, Cologne cellist Veit Steinmann, British jazz saxophonist Stan Sulzmann and British pianist Gwilym Simcock.

"Miriam's music is full of beauty and imagination. (...)"
Norma Winstone

"Ast proves herself to be a tongue-tied vocalist who intones songs in seven languages and performs virtuoso scat capers, but also a great storyteller."
Georg Spindler, Mannheimer Morgen