Sonia Loenne
words • music • vocals
AINO SALTO • BUREAU BUREAU • SOLO
• UPCOMING DATES •
08.03.26 | Jazzwerkstatt Bern | Maybe She's A Bitch, Maybe You Need A Sense Of Humour (UA)
20.03.26 Aino Salto Solo | Les Jumeaux Club Lausanne
15.04.26 BUREAU BUREAU | bee-flat Bern | ALBUM RELEASE
17.04.26 BUREAU BUREAU | La Chaux-de-Fonds
18.04.26 | BUREAU BUREAU | Stanser Musiktage
19.04. Aino Salto feat. 3yooni | Project Agora Festival, Sudhaus Basel
22.05. Aino Salto Full Band | Monetreux Jazz Residency Concert @ Instituto Svizzero Roma (IT)
27.06.26 Aino Salto Full Band | Garage, Egelsee Bern
04.07. Aino Salto Full Band | POLLEN Festival Sion
10.07. Aino Salto Full | Les Garden Parties Lausanne
16.08. Aino Salto Solo | Seebad Enge Zürich
04.09.26 BUREAU BUREAU | Jazz Au Peuple Festival
• ABOUT •
I am an absolute fan of this video: Seun Kuti - Free Europe
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 since then been working as a freelance artist and a cultural organiser. I am currently enrolled in a BSc Environmental Sciences.
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.
Besides, I have a small penchant for ✨ drama ✨
contact: hello@sonialoenne.com
WORKS/ALBUMS
Maybe She's A Bitch, Maybe You Need A Sense Of Humour (Performance/Composition/Words, 2026)
Guesswork - Aino Salto (Voice, Composition/Lyrics, Irascible Records 2026)
Christoph Gallio's A Stone Is A Rose Is A Stone Is A Stone (Voice, HatHut Records 2025)
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:
Montreux Jazz Residency, 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
2026 winner GDS.FM "EP of the Year Award" (Aino Salto)
2026 nomination for Indiesuisse "Album of the Year" (Aino Salto)
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)