Efrat
Alony

The Berlin-based singer and composer Efrat Alony, originally from Haifa, has ‘long been one of the most important voices in European jazz’ (Ulf Drechsel, RBB).

Alony's artistic profile stands for idiosyncratic, independent and high-quality music. Her latest album, Hollywood Isn't Calling, was named Best Vocal Album of the Year at the 2022 German Jazz Awards, and the track ‘My Shorthand Modes of Perception’ was nominated for Best Composition.

Her new album ‘Händel-Fast Forward’, released on the renowned New York label Dot Time Records, has been awarded the ‘Opus Klassik Award’ 2024 in the category ‘Classical Music Without Borders’. According to the jury, this album is ‘proof of Alony's unique vision and creativity’.

In ‘Händel-Fast Forward’, Alony builds a bridge between baroque and jazz. She embarks on a thrilling journey through time, with one foot firmly planted in the here and now.
A grand pirouette between questions and answers, between jazz and baroque.

Alony studied singing and composition at renowned international music academies (Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Israel; Berklee College of Music, Boston and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, Berlin).
With ‘Alony’, Efrat was celebrated for her extraordinary voice and won numerous awards (including the Karl Hofer Prize, the International Jazz Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten, prizes from the Berlin Senate, the Gema Authors' Prize in the field of jazz composition and a nomination for the BMW International Jazz Award).

In the summer of 2019, Alony received the ‘Winner of Best Foreign Artist’ award in Los Angeles at the ‘Artemis Film Festival 2019’ in the field of composition.
As a soloist and composer, she works with star pianist Igor Levit, among others. She has performed with the Hessische Rundfunk Big Band (Frankfurt), the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Orchestra Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra, the Helsinki UMO Jazz Orchestra (Finland), the Christoph Cech Jazz Orchestra (Vienna) and the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and Martin Streule Jazz Orchestra (Bern). From 2009 to 2023, Alony was a lecturer in jazz singing at the HKB in Bern, Switzerland.

Since October 2023, Alony has been a professor of jazz singing at the BrucknerUni in Linz.