Sophie Dunér began her carreer in the United States .Technically versatile, her tastes in music are wide ranging. While studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, jazz improvisation teacher Hal Crook used to tell her " You sing the heck out of the hornplayers " . Here she studied voice, improvisation and composition.

Sophie is like a chameleon, adapting very easy to any kind of music with great sensibility. Her familiarity with jazz, ethnic and 20th century classical music has led many composers and musicians to ask her to join them in musical collaboration during rescent years.

In August of 2004, Sophie spent one week studying vocal interpretation at the Stockhausen Music Course in Kuerten, Germany under suggestion of composer KH Stockhausen. In 2005, she returned to the course supported by a grant of € 3000 from The Arts Foundation ( Konstnärsnämnden ) in Sweden.

2006 Sophie performed in the TV show Morning News TV4 Gothenburg, Sweden. She returned to perform at the Pizza Express Jazz Club performing with musicians such as Paul Clarvis, Phil Pesket, Sam Burgess and Alisdair Cherry in London. She also repeated a performance of the national anthem in Gothenburg at the finals of a game of one of Swedens most successful hockeyteams. Performances during 2005 has included Pizza on the Park , Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, London, the Swedish National Anthem at the Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg,The Swedish Embassy in Madrid , a concert at the Kavehaz Jazz Gallery in NYC, USA and a four day concert series & art exhibition at Galleri Gummeson in Stockholm, Sweden.

"Listening to this Gummeson Gallery recording and working with the music and texts, it dawns upon me with brute force what an excellent, yes, brilliant, composer Sophie Dunér is, in a complete, genuine sterling way." Read the intereview by Ingvar Loco Nordin for SONOLOCO RECORD REVIEWS http://home.swipnet.se

In September 2005 she recorded her new album of her own theatre inspired jazz tunes with the jazz label C.I.M.P in NY, USA with Rory Stuart, Matt Penmann & Kahlil Kwame Bell . " I was impressed by her form-filling yet ethereal vocal inte- gration within a jazz combo and also by her original compositions. Sophie Dunér is both a personal and original singer and a composer of substance. Her talents are well in evidence on this recording." Bob Rusch, C.I.M.P producer.

Leading The Sophie Dunér Orchestra in Boston in the beginning of the 90s, she composed & performed in the USA at clubs such as the Willow Jazz Club, Sculler´s, Birdland, Cornelia Street Café etc They travelled to the Snowfestival of Sapporo Japan - a tour sponsored by Berklee College of Music to be followed by the CD " Orange" , her debut album. ( see www.towerrecords.com ) as well as The Stockholm Jazz Festival & The Baltic Jazz Festival in Scandinavia. The band has included musicians such as Mika Pohjola ,George Dontchev, Kazumi Ikenaga, Bruno Råberg, David Boato and Roberto Dani.

She collaborated with composers such as Guillermo Klein of The Big Van recording as a guest singer on his big band CD "The Big Van " as well as performing in the Boston & NYC area featuring musicians such as Chris Cheek Seamus Blake and Sten Hostfalt. She was also featured on his CD " El Minotauro " as well as on the album " The Outsider " Savant ) with Fernando Tarrés & Arida Conta Group featuring D. Pérez, D. Rieser, D. McCaslin and F.Huergo on Savant Records, N.Y. Also featured on his album " Prausagios da Carnaval" on BAU Records, Argentina. Herb Pomeroy of Boston and Phil Wilson had her featured in their big bands. David Doms of "Universal You" brought her to perform at CBGB´s in NYC & featuring her on his album Garden of Delight for Gruvetune Records, Boston.Playwright Thamare Thorne invited her to collaborate with a classical ensemble performing for the play "Seven last words" at The Theater for the New City in NYC.

Pianist Aaron Goldberg had her sing with his trio at Kings Theater in Boston featuring Mark Turner & Reuben Rogers.

20th century Spanish composer Manuel Ceide used her as a mezzo soprano in his pieces with The Composers of the New England Collectives performing in Boston. Tours in Spain with the same ensemble, performing at Cultural Centers and on TV in Madrid and Galicia. Her collaboration with Manuel would continue and she went on to perform in Holland at the Fenteneer Van Vissingen Zaal and Gerte Kerk with musicians such as Henk Alkema etc. Off to Puerto Rico in 1998, she gave performances & workshops at the Univ. of P.R with the music of M. Ceide & Francis Schwartz. She´d also perform the music of Argentine electronic composer Eduardo Kusnir. The same team went to Galicia in Spain performing at Fundación Eugenio Granell in Santiago, Centro Galega de Información and at Caja Madrid in Lugo.

In Switzerland she collaborated with saxofonist/composer Juerg Wickihalder. She recorded as co composer & singer on the CD "Dance with Me" with the big band Interplay Collective, Dreamscape Music performing at clubs & festivals in Switzerland and Germany. In 2002 and 2003 she returned to Zürich appearing at the " Festival Aum Braunwald" as co composer & singer in the Octet of J. Wickihalder. She also sang with pianist Chris Wiesendanger at Moods Jazz Club .

Argentine NYC based composer Laura Andel & Oli Bott invited Sophie to perform with her big band at the Kalkscheune Jazz Club in Berlin broadcasted by Radio Berlin in 2000. The same year, she was selected for the auditions for the Orchestre National de Jazz in Paris as only foreign vocalist.

In 1997 Sophie recieved € 4000 from the Society of Arts in Sweden.

Moving to Spain in 1996, Sophie performed with her band at Jazz en La Costa, Homenaje a Garcia Lorca , Getxo Jazz Festival, V1 Festival de Jazz de Lugo, Circulo de Bellas Artes, (sponsored by SAS & Swedish Embassy of Madrid ) Aula Cultural Plaza Catalunya, Centro Cultural de Garcia Lorca etc. . She collaborated with Joaquin Chacón, Dan Rochlis, Agustín Gerenu Victor Merlo and Polo Ortí . She recorded with the Spanish/Arabic fusion group Dobra Group on Phorminx Records and on the album Reggaewomen featuring Rita Marley on Arcade Records. She did extensive work for TV channels such as Canal Plus, Canal Digital and TVE such as singing the main theme for the documentary " Días de Vino " and at the anniversary for " Lo más plus " ( Canal Plús ). She taught voice during several years at La Escuela Música Creativa.

Maintaining her contact with her native Sweden, she has given concerts at the Gothenburg Symphony Hall in Gothenburg two summers in a row, inviting Peter Nylander, Patrick Andrén, Arne Tengstrand, Filip Agustsson, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Jon Persson. She followed up the TV programme "Goodmorning TV 4" and several radio programmes and newspaper interview s. Sweden is where she began her musical education studying classical piano for 7 years with Carl Tillius and attending voice classes with John Kincaid at the Stage School of Gothenburg.

In 2004 she met with Michael Nyman Band saxofonist John Harle in London. Harle stated"..you remind me of producing Ute Lemper 8 years ago". Giles Stanley of BBC Management who introduced her music to Jon Jacobs stated "..its hard to find singers with intelligent music".