Bria Skonberg

Bria Skonberg is a Juno-award winning artist, 10x Downbeat Rising Star, recipient of the Legend Award by the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook and a 2025 nominee for the European "Academie du Jazz" awards. The trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter has been called the , "rdquo" -> shining hope of hot jazz"(NY Times) and is considered , "rdquo" -> one ofthe most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation"(WSJ). She has been a featured artist at hundreds of festivals and stages the world over, including New Orleans Jazz Heritage, Kobe, Monterey, Breda, Newport and Montreal Jazz Festivals and Carnegie Hall. Her debut LP on Sony Masterworks reached #5 on the Billboard Jazz charts. Her 7th studio album What it Means was recorded in New Orleans and received a rare 5 star Downbeat review. Her music has been streamed over 30 million times. A professional band leader since her teens growing up in British Columbia, Canada, she moved to Vancouver and obtained her... Read more .