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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 -

 

DISCOGRAPHY

 

AS ARRANGER, SINGER & COMPOSER & CO-COMPOSER

 

° Orange / The Sophie Dunér OrchestraBoston, USA  1994

° Dance with me / Interplay Collective Big Band Dreamscape, Lausanne, CH 1997

° The Rain in Spain / Sophie Dunér QuartetMusic 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

 

AS  INVITED SINGER

 

° 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

 

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

FESTIVALS

 

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 ParkThe Jazz Café • Chelsea Arts Club ( UK ) • AMR

• ChorusMoodsHolenstein 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 )

 

TEACHING

 

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 TecnologíaVoice, improvisation &

solfege  Madrid, Spain.

1996 •  Escuela Pentagrama Voice Madrid, Spain

1994  • Instituto de Butartque - Masterclass in  Music. Madrid, Spain

 

EDUCATION

 

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

SWEDEN.SE

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

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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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