Ajda Stina Turek

Ajda Stina Turek is a Slovenian jazz vocalist, a Performance graduate from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She is a winner of many Slovenian national voice competitions and was also the youngest finalist at Riga Jazz Stage 2014 in Latvia. She is the only recipient, from 1200 singers at Berklee, of “The Outstanding Jazz Vocalist” award in 2017. During her studies she released her debut EP “Sonder” with a sold-out tour in Slovenia. Her music was featured on European national radio stations, on a World Jazz Day the same year. After she finished her degree in Boston, Ajda moved to New York where she performed at the famous Birdland Jazz Club and other known venues on Broadway. Ajda had a chance to work with many notable musicians such as Kurt Elling, Rita Moreno, Lucinda Williams, Kevin Mahogany, Rosanne Cash, Lionel Richie, Peter Eldridge (New York Voices) and others. In 2019 she represented Slovenia, as a singer of Euroradio Jazz Orchestra in Austria and won the “Most Promising Author and Performer” award at the oldest and most important Slovenian music festival “Popevka 2019”. During Covid she moved back to Europe and recorded a duo jazz album with a vibraphonist Vid Jamnik in collaboration with the national radio ARS. This summer she finished her master’s degree at Berklee Valencia in Spain from Contemporary Performance and Production.