Sophie Dunér 🇸🇪 Sweden

JAZZ & CONTEMPORARY SINGER

Sophie Dunér is a Swedish singer, improviser and composer who travels and performs internationally. Her most recent act is her new solo show - A blend of jazz influenced by world music & contemporary classical writing. With performances spanning from the infamous ‘CBGB ́ s’ to ‘The 13 & 14th Annual Charles Mingus Festival’ in NYC to ‘Buenos Aires Festival de Música Contemporánea La Plata’ as well as ‘Festival O/Modernt’ in Sweden, she has been a composer in residence with the US based new music group ‘Present Musi’. CD recordings include ‘The City of My Soul’ (2013) together with the UK based string quartet ‘The Callino Quartet’, produced by legendary Grammy award winning producer Michael Haas (PARMA Recordings). She is also a frequent collaborator of ‘Composers Concordance’ in NYC. During fall 2021, she toured with Dutch composer Jacob TV, premiering his ‘The Freedom Songs’ at ‘Concertgebouw’ in Amsterdam. Sophie studied jazz improvisation with horn players Hal Crook, George Garzone & Ed Tomassi and she has a Degree in vocal performance from Boston’s ‘Berklee College of Music’ She has also studied at the Stockhausen summer courses in Germany, awarded a grant from The Swedish Arts Council. Sophie has collaborated with musicians such as Dominic Duval Sr, Matt Pennman, Gene Pritsker, Guy Livingston, Eric Segnitz, Rory Stuart, Paul Clarvis, Kahlil Kwame Bell, Don McCaslin, Guillermo Klein, Aaron Goldberg, Dick Griffin, Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, Steve Hamilton, Gerry Brown, Hugo Ticciati, Valery Ponomarev, Tommy Campbell, Bertram Lehman, Sébastién Dubé etc. A visual artist as well, her short ‘Art Film Noir’ ‘When the saints go marching in’ was selected for the Harlem based ‘AddAMovie Film Festival’ in NYC, featuring Eleonor Sandresky on piano & arrangement. In 2022, she released her solo CD ‘Strictly Business’, produced by acclaimed British producer Darren Allison. A CD that was awarded ‘The annual What a performance! Award 2022’ by ‘The Art Music Lounge’. Previous CD’s include ‘The City of Dizzy’ together with electric cellist Jeremy Harman (2016) and ‘Songs Eclectic’ together with Gene Pritsker (2020). Sophie has also recorded a duo CD with the late iconic avantgarde jazz bassist Dominic Duval Sr (previously in Cecil Taylor’s band) in 2014. Her newly recorded CD ‘Modern Mingus’ together with Bertram Lehman on percussion & electronics is to be released during spring 2024.

Other performances include concerts at venues such as Concertgebouw, Tivoli Vredenburg, November Music (NL) Confidencen, Festival O/Modernt, Stockholm Jazz Festival, Stockholm New Music Festival, Scandinavium, Gothenburg Symphony Hall (SE) EMX / Sowieso Neukoln (DE) Circulo de Bellas Artes, Jazz en La Costa, Getxo Jazz Festival, Bimbache Open Art Festival (ES) Baltic Jazz Festival (SF), Pizza Express Jazz Club (UK) Sapporo Snow Festival (JP) Symphony Space, Cornelia St. Café, ShapeShifter Lab, Small’s, The Bop Shop, The LilyPad, PARMA Music Festival, NPR, NBC (USA) etc. In September, Sophie was featured singer for ‘The Other Concert’ at Moods Jazz Club in Zürich, Switzerland, directed by Swiss / American composer & reed player Daniel Schnyder to be followed by a concert of her new solo show at the Glenn Miller Café in Stockholm, Sweden in November. Other ongoing collaborations include work with composers such as José Luís Greco and Francis Schwartz.

For more info, visit www.sophieduner.com