Vox Sturnus is a vocal collective of creative singers and musicians from the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland and Denmark with the aim of bringing women in music together around the creative process across age, nationality and musical background. The group comprises of Margriet Sjoerdsma (NL), Thora Sveinsdottir (IS), Maaike van der Linde (NL), Annie Tangberg (NO), Julia Werner (NL) and Anne Marie Roel Messerschmidt (DK).

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For this reason, the group works creatively to explore and unfold the compositions of individual members or collaboratively to improvise, arrange or give shape to new ideas, resulting in an exciting alchemy of vocal harmonies, delicate string arrangements and various other instrumental features that move within genres such as folk, jazz and the more experimental vocal music.

 

Most recently, the group has worked with self-written pieces inspired by female artists in their various native languages - these include Tove Ditlevsen, Tjitske Jansen and Anna Eva Bergman, to name a few.

 

Alongside being part of the group, the members have several years of experience from the professional music scene in their respective countries as well as touring with both ensembles and as soloists. Read more about the individual members here.

 

In the fall of 2022, the group engaged in an exciting collaboration with jazz composer Martin Fondse, partaking as the 'voice orchestra' in his eclectic jazz ensemble for his newly composed work Diamonds, the product of BIMHUIS' annual commissioned composition assignment.

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