sophie CV
SOPHIE DUNÉR
E mail:
info@sophieduner.com
Born October 28, 1969 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Lived in Boston, USA 1989 -1995; NYC,USA 1996; Madrid, Spain 1997 – 2005,
Gothenburg, Sweden 2005 -
° Orange / The Sophie Dunér Orchestra – Boston, USA 1994
° Dance with me / Interplay Collective Big Band Dreamscape, Lausanne, CH 1997
° The Rain in Spain / Sophie Dunér Quartet – Music by S. Dunér. Produced by Bob Rusch.
With Rory Stuart, Matt Pennman & Kahlil Kwame Bell. CIMP records , NY, USA 2006
° The City of My Dreams/The Sophie Dunér String Quartet - Sophie Productions, Madrid, 2008
( Produced, composed, arranged & sung by Sophie Dunér )
For purchase at http://cdbaby.com/cd/sdsq
° Ballads and Sallads/with Rigmor Gustafsson, Lina Nyberg, Siri Larsen. Produced
by Mika Pohjola . Change Records NYC,USA 2006
° Prausagios da Carnaval/Fernando Tarrés & Arida Conta Group. With Dan
Rieser, Tino Derado, Fernando Huergo, Don Mc Caslin . BAU records, Argentina, 2001
° Dobra/Dobra Dobra. Arabic Fusion. Phorminx Records, Madrid, Spain 1998
° Reggaewomen/Featuring Rita Marley. Arcade Records, Madrid, Spain 1998
° El Minotauro/The Big Van. Big Band led by Guillermo Klein. Featuring Chris
Cheek, Seamus Blake, Sten Höstfält etc .Candid Records, NYC 1997
° The Outsider/Fernando Tarrés & Arida Conta Group. Savant, NYC, USA 1996
With Dan Rieser, Tino Derado, Fernando Huergo, Don McCaslin .
° The Big Van/Guillermo Klein. Beat Records, NYC, USA 1995
Japan: • Sapporo Snow Festival Scandinavia: • Stockholm Jazz & Blues Festival • Baltic Jazz Festival
° Stockholm New Music Festival Switzerland: • Glarus Jazz Festival • Festival Aum Braunwald Spain: • Getxo Jazz
Festival • Jazz en la Costa • Fiestas Dos de Mayo • VI Lugo Jazz Festival • Homenaje a Garcia Lorca
CLUBS & OTHER
USA: • Sculler´s • The Willow • The Middle East ° Kings Theater ( Boston ) • Small´s • Birdland
•Gonzalez y Gonzalez • Cornelia St. Café • Kavehaz ° The Theatre for the New City ( NYC )
Europe : • Pizza Express • Pizza on the Park • The Jazz Café • Chelsea Arts Club ( UK ) • AMR
• Chorus • Moods • Holenstein Cultural Center ( CH ) • Kalkscheune ( DE )
• Storyville ( Finland ) • Cafe Central • Clamores • Dizzy Jazz • La Bilbaina
• Circulo de Bellas Artes • Centro Cultural Plaza Catalunya • Centro Cultural Garcia Lorca
• Embajada de Suecia ( Spain ) • Glenn Miller • Mosebacke • Stenhammarsalen
• Gothenburg Symphony Hall • Galleri Gummesons • Scandinavium • Frölundaborg ( Sweden )
COLLABORATIONS WITH:
Rory Stuart, Kahlil Kwame Bell, Matt Penman, Guillermo Klein, Aaron Goldberg, Sten Höstfält, Mika Pohjola,
Fernando Tarrés, Manuel Ceide, Francis Schwartz, Henk Alkema, Eduardo Kusnir, David Boato, Juerg Wickihalder, Laura
Andel, Dan Rieser, Don McCaslin, Tim Luntzel, Paul Clarvis, Martin France, Gilad Atzmon, Asaf Sirkis, Tom Mason, Simon
Thorpe, Alisdair Cherry, Peter Nylander, Polo Ortí, Agustin Gerenu, Victor Merlo, Tony Heimer,
Patrick Andrén, Mark Turner, Reuben Rogers, Dan Rieser, Dominic Duval, Seamus Blake, Chris Cheek,
Torbjörn Zetterberg, Arne Tengstrand, Jon Persson, Leif Jordansson, Filip Agustsson, Sebastiaan de Krom
CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
2004 & 2005 • Stockhausen Music Course ( Invited by Karlheinz Stockhausen )
- Kuerten, Germany. Supported by a grant of € 3000 from the Arts Council
( Konstnärsnämnden ) in Sweden.
1996 - 2000
Concerts as mezzo soprano with the composers Manuel Ceide, Francis
Schwartz & Eduardo Kusnir performing "Música de Vanguardia" at:
• University of Puerto Rico ( San Juan, PR ) • Caja Madrid • Fundación
Eugenio Granell • Centro Galega de Informació • Radio Galega ( Spain )
• Fenteneer Van Vissingen Zaal • Gerte Kerk • Rotterdam Conservatory
( Holland ).
Featured as mezzo soprano in the play " Seven Last Words " directed by Thamare
Thorne • The Theater for the New City ( New York City )
1995
Concerts as mezzo soprano for the Composers of the New England
Collectives at • The French Library & • The Boston Public Library ( Boston,
USA ) Tour in Spain with concerts at • Centro Cultural de Buenavista
( Madrid, Spain ) • Circulo de Belas Artes ( Lugo, Spain ) • Televisión
Galega ( Santiago, Spain ).
RADIO & TELEVISION
• Stolen Moments, Dave Rubin ( CAL ) • La Guagua, Radio Palermo ( ARG ) Mitt i Musiken, p1 ( SWE )
• Radio Berlin ( DE ) • Radio Galega ( ES ) • Peligrosamente Juntas, RTE ( ES )
• Canal Plús ( ES ) • Lo Más Plus ( ES ) • Télevisión Galega ( ES ) • Días de Vino ( ES )
• Morning News TV 4 ( SWE ) • FOX TV ( USA & Canada ) • Radio Volym ( SWE )
° Jazz without Borders, Taintradio, Mitchell Feldman ( Georgia ) ° Kaleidoskop SR P2 ( SWE )
° Wivatt SR P4 ( SWE ) ° Felicia SR P2 ( SWE ) ° Afternoon Classics with Gandalf / WJFF ( USA )
° Radio Grenouille ( FR ) ° Música de Nadie / Radio Clásica ( ES ) ° Changing the record / Offbeat Radio ( IR )
° WMPG ( USA )
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2002 - • Private Teaching ( Voice & Improvisation ) Sweden & Spain
1999 - 2002 • Escuela Música Creativa - Madrid, Spain
2003 • Serpent School of Music./ "Women in Music" Masterclasses in improvisation - Zürich, CH
2002 • Centro Cultural de Villalba- Masterclass in improvisation - Madrid, Spain
1999 • University of Puerto Rico - Masterclasses in contemporary singing
1997 – 1999 • Rítmo y Compás Voice & improvisation Madrid, Spain.
1996 - 1997 • Instituto de Música y Tecnología – Voice, improvisation &
solfege Madrid, Spain.
1996 • Escuela Pentagrama Voice Madrid, Spain
1994 • Instituto de Butartque - Masterclass in Music. Madrid, Spain
2004 & 2005 • Stockhausen Music Course - Kuerten, Germany. Supported by a
grant of € 3000 from the Arts Foundation ( Konstnärsnämnden ) in Sweden.
1989 – 1993 • Berklee College of Music - Boston USA
Bachelors Degree in vocal Performance. Improvisational studies with Hal
Crook and George Garzone. Featured singer with the Phil Wilson Rainbow
Band & Herb Pomeroy Big Band.
1985 – 1988 • The Stage School - Gothenburg Sweden. Vocal studies with John
Kincaid.
1977 – 1985 • Classical piano studies with Professor Carl Tillius - Gothenburg
Sweden.
AWARDS
2008 € 5000 ° Konstnärsnamnden The Arts Council - Stockholm, Sweden
2005 € 3000 • Konstnärsnämnden The Arts Council - Stockholm, Sweden
1997 € 4000 • Konstnärsnämnden The Arts Council - Stockholm, Sweden
1993 $ 1500 • Berklee College of Music - Boston, USA
1992 € 1500 • Anna Whitlocks Minnesfond - Stockholm, Sweden
1991 € 1500 • SE Banken Scandinavian Bank - Gothenburg, Sweden
REVIEWS & PRESS
° Cadence Magazine ( USA ) ° Dusted Reviews ( USA ) ° All about jazz Italia
( IT ) ° Nordische Musik ( DE ) ° Sonoloco Record Reviews ( Sweden ) ° KIM
( Sweden ) ° Musenblätter ( DE ) ° Jazz.com ( USA ) ° Tidningen Kulturen ( Swed. )
° Temporary Fault ( IT ) ° The Expressionist ( USA ) ° BSC News Magazine
( France ) ° Tokafi ( DE ) ° Scherzo ( ES ) ° Tomajazz ( ES ) ° Jazzhot ( FR )
° Orkesterjournalen ( ES ) ° Cuadernos de Jazz
Sophie is represented on Swedens official website Sweden.se ( http://www.sweden.se/music ) in the cathegory “Jazz”
with the song You” ( N° 25 ).
ART
ART EXHIBITIONS:
2007:
Gothenburg Art Fair, Gothenburg, Sweden
2005 :
Galleri Gummeson, Stockhom, Sweden
( The oldest art gallery in Scandinavia that has included artits such as Vasilij Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Edward Munch, Andy Warhol, Isac Grünewald and August Strindberg ).
2002:
Café La Palma, Madrid, Spain
Café Virveln, Stockholm, Sweden
The barn of Brottkärr, Hovås, Sweden
2001:
Hotel Carlton, Madrid, Spain
Gothenburg Symphony Hall
1998:
Killebäcksgården, Torekov, Sweden
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