Jazz vocalist and composer Julia Ehninger challenges traditional repertoire boundaries. With her arresting stage presence, Julia Ehninger connects with audiences, drawing people in from the first notes. Her warm, nimble voice and expansive musical tastes have led her to explore electronic music, jazz standards as well as pop and experimental music.
Julia Ehninger holds a PhD in music education and was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). She was enrolled in the jazz performance program at Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Gretchen Parlato and Theo Bleckmann and was supported by a DAAD-scholarship. She was also a scholar of the Foundation of German Business and studied jazz performance and music education at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany.
In her artistic work, Julia Ehninger has recently dedicated herself to interdisciplinary, electronic and digital projects. Together with the Viennese author Jonas Schneider, she created the reading »The Discovery of Loneliness«, in which scientific findings of psychological research on loneliness are dealt with through literature and music. With the support of Goethe Institute, she composed the song cycle »Tale of Colors« in 2022 in a virtual cooperation with the Portuguese composer Sara Ross. The song cycle is based on »Das Märchen von der Farbe« by Georg Simmel and combines contemporary classical, electronic and jazz music.
In fall 2022, Julia has released the debut album with her project HIMOYA on Berthold Records. Striving for authentic musical expression, HIMOYA combine elements of jazz and electronic pop music. In 2020, Julia published »Freedom of Flight« with her crossover band FRIDA on Jazzsick Records. Julia Ehninger has also released the albums »Hidden Place« and »Im Wandel« with her jazz quartet.
Julia Ehninger has performed at numerous clubs and festivals throughout Europe and the United States, at Carnegie Hall New York, A-Trane Berlin, JazzOpen Stuttgart as well as big band tours of Abu Dhabi, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic.