Irene Serra is a professional Jazz vocalist/composer based in London. She has performed various styles of music ranging from Jazz, Blues and Brazilian in prestigious venues such as the Barbican Centre (with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra), the Royal Albert Hall, Ronnie Scotts, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Union Chapel in Islington, Kings Place, the Hackney Empire, 606 Jazz Club and the National Theatre. Her original project, ISQ, was also named a Time Out London Critics Choice.
Irene was one of the semi-finalists in the Brussels International Young Jazz Singer in 2008 and was the only European finalist in the Shure Jazz Voice Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009. She has also worked as a session singer in the UK and Europe and teaches Jazz Voice at Middlesex University and Royal Holloway University.
...a refreshingly individual singer...