Award-winning vibraphonist, composer, and bandleader Viktoria Søndergaard presents her most personal and fearless project to date: Viktoria Søndergaard SECRETS. A dream band featuring five remarkable voices from the Danish scene: Elvira Skovsang, Øyunn, Ida Duelund, and Frederik Blæsild Vuust.
In SECRETS, Søndergaard creates a playful, collective, and uncompromising sound world where boundaries between jazz, chamber music, pop, rap, and Scandinavian folk dissolve. It’s a meeting point of vulnerability and strength, of composition and improvisation.
In SECRETS, improvisation and poetry meet in an organic whole. As described by Carl Prize 2025: “The music is full of imagination, life-affirming joy, and the desire to turn dreams into reality.”
The debut album “Music of Secrets” has been met with widespread international acclaim. Jazzthing (Germany) praised it as “music of ruthless intimacy that can hardly be categorized but captivat...
Award-winning vibraphonist, composer, and bandleader Viktoria Søndergaard presents her most personal and fearless project to date: Viktoria Søndergaard SECRETS. A dream band featuring five remarkable voices from the Danish scene: Elvira Skovsang, Øyunn, Ida Duelund, and Frederik Blæsild Vuust.
In SECRETS, Søndergaard creates a playful, collective, and uncompromising sound world where boundaries between jazz, chamber music, pop, rap, and Scandinavian folk dissolve. It’s a meeting point of vulnerability and strength, of composition and improvisation.
In SECRETS, improvisation and poetry meet in an organic whole. As described by Carl Prize 2025: “The music is full of imagination, life-affirming joy, and the desire to turn dreams into reality.”
The debut album “Music of Secrets” has been met with widespread international acclaim. Jazzthing (Germany) praised it as “music of ruthless intimacy that can hardly be categorized but captivates everyone.” Jazzwise (UK) called it “an enchanting debut revealing Søndergaard as a composer of rare sensitivity.” Blue in Green Radio (UK) hailed it as “a visionary, all-embracing triumph, an artistic high point in Danish jazz.” And Verhoovens Jazz (NL) noted: “Music that doesn’t ask ‘Do you like me?’ but ‘Are you awake?’”
Known from projects like BARYL and SMUK ZVUK (with Klára Pudláková), Søndergaard has collaborated with Marilyn Mazur, DR’s Big Band, Smag På Dig Selv, and Tivoli’s Ensemble. She has received numerous awards, including the Aarhus Jazz Talent Prize (2022), Tivoli Jazz Prize (2022), Roager Grant (2024), and the Carl Prize Honorary Award (2025), personally presented by Mazur herself. In 2025 Viktoria was nominated for a Danish Music Award as the Musician of the year.
Viktoria Søndergaard SECRETS is not just a band, it’s a musical confession, an open secret, and an invitation to listen with your heart....
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