Maria Jardardottir

Maria Jardardottir (BA, MMus) is a performing and composing voice musician working freelance with international engagements. Throughout her education and work she continues to keep a strong focus on creative composition, improvisation and extended voice techniques with roots in world music, Indian Classical music (Dhrupad), folk and jazz. Her current main projects for which she composes and performs in are: the vocal trio Røyst Trio and its collaboration with the jazz-folk sextet Metamorphic, her solo project Melatonin as well as the chamber ensemble evamigra. Maria has since the mid 90s created work and toured UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Zimbabwe and has performed/had her work played on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, NRK Radio (Norway), RTE Radio (Irland), KUSP Radio and KPIG Radio (USA), Sintesis TV, Fusion IMER Radio and XEWT12 TV (Mexico).