Ester brought to TEDxBratislava passion for music.
Ester Wiesnerova is a Slovak vocalist, composer, lyricist and educator. She fuses jazz with Slovak traditional and classical music, while adding a little bit of a folky singer/songwriter flavor. She a senior at Berklee College of Music, majoring vocal performance and jazz composition, where she is a part of the prestigious Berklee Global Jazz Institute. The Forbes magazine listed her among 30 most successful Slovaks under the age of 30 and she was awarded the title “the Best Newcomer of the Year” in the competition New Faces of Slovak Jazz. The general Slovak public knows Ester mainly thanks to a TV competition, The Voice of Czechoslovakia. She was also recognized for her volunteer activities – organizing fundraising events on behalf of disabled children, concerts in prison and rest homes, and music workshops for children.