Sonia Loenne
words • music • vocals










Aino Salto • BUREAU BUREAU • Solo • LinkTree
• LIVE DATES •

• ABOUT •
Spending most of my musical time as a composer and singer, I have been living in Bern for the past five years.

I was born in France in December 1996 and moved to Leipzig a year later. This has led to sustainable linguistical confusion. That's why, in addition to music, I very much enjoy poetry and Unfug.

Since moving to Bern in 2020 I graduated with honors from an M.A. in Contemporary Composition in September 2023 and have been working as a freelance artist.

My artistic work is not entirely straightforward. I oscillate back and forth between pop music and experimental new music and am interested in climate justice and politics, which doesn't always manifest itself musically. The basis and common ground of all my work is following current events and placing myself as an artist in society.

And a small penchant for ✨ drama ✨

WORKS/ALBUMS

Imagine People As Adolescent Birds - Aino Salto (Voice, Composition/Lyrics, Irascible Records 2025)
The Valley Session - Okwok (Voice/Text, 2025)
Hyperactive Shoegaze - EDNA (Drums/Composition/Lyrics, Lauter 2024)
Disagreeing over Fruit and a lost Spaceship - Ensemble Adapter (Composition/Lyrics, 2023)
Goodbye Glacier - BUREAU BUREAU & convoi exceptionnel (Composition/Conducting, 2023)
Impractical Questions - Ensemble Proton (Composition/Lyrics, 2023)
Third Floor From The Left - BUREAU BUREAU (Voice, Composition/Lyrics, 2022)
Angry Voicemail to E. A. - Rainald Brederling Quintett (Voice/Composition, 2022)
MOVING IN - Sonia Loenne Solo (Voice, Concept/Composition/Lyrics, 2021)
Five Related Pieces - Veyls Mâneyr (Voice, Atoria Records 2020)



SOME PLACES I PLAYED AT (FOR THE LEGITIMATE BUSINE$$ SIDE OF IT):
Leipziger Jazztage, Moods Zurich, bee-flat Bern, Les Jumeaux Lausanne, Cologne Jazzweek, Treffen junge Musikszene Berliner Festspiele, Cully Jazz, Luzern Live, Echolot Festival, Neubad Luzern, Kiff Aarau...




AWARD$ / COMMI$$IONS / $HOLAR$HIPS
2025 Nomination for Demotape Clinic "Out of Genre" (Aino Salto)
2024 „Suisse Diagonales Jazz“ (BUREAU BUREAU)
2024 Final Round of the Demotape Clinic "Out of Genre" (BUREAU BUREAU)
2023 Commission for LIMINA Festival (Salzburg)
2023 Live Selection for Concours Nicati 2023 (MOVING IN, Solo)
2023 Nomination for m4music Demotape Clinic "pop" (EDNA)
2023 Commission for Protonwerk °12 (Bern)
2022 ZKB-Jazzpreis (BUREAU BUREAU)
2022 Carte Blanche for Junges LOFT (Cologne Jazzweek)
2021-23 Federal Excellence Scholarship for International Students in Switzerland ESKAS



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PS: I also like to write about music in english or german.
Here are some examples: 

bee-flat Bern (archived texts: seasons 22/23 to 24/25)
EDDY SONNENSCHEIN - TIME (2024)
ARBRE - MES ÉPAULES SERONT RIVIÈRES (Neuklang Records, 2023)