sophie CV

SOPHIE DUNÉR

E mail:

sdunr@yahoo.com

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 2005

 

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

 °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 ( Boston ) • Small´s • Birdland

 •Gonzalez y Gonzalez • Cornelia St. Café • Kavehaz ( 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 Pennmann, Guillermo Klein, Aaron Goldberg, Sten Höstfält, Mika Pohjola

Fernando Tarrés, Manuel Ceide, Francis Schwartz, David Boato, Juerg Wickihalder, Laura Andel, Dan Rieser, Don Mc Caslin, Tim Luntzel,

Paul Clarvis, Martin France, Gilad Atzmon, Peter Nylander, Polo Ortí, Agustin Gerenu, Victor Merlo, Tony Heimer, Patrick Andrén, Don Mc

Caslin, Dominic Duval, Seamus Blake, Chris Cheek, Filip Agustsson, Torbjörn Zetterberg

CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

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 Guaga, 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 )

 

TEACHING

 

2002 - 2007  • Private Teaching ( Voice & Improvisation )Sweden & Spain

1999 - 2002  • Escuela Música Creativa  - Madrid, Spain

2003 • Serpent School of Music. Masterclasses in improvisation - Zürich, C H  

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 Garzon. 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

2005 € 3000 • Konstnärsnämnden The Society of Arts

1997 € 4000 • Konstnärsnämnden The Society of Arts   

1993 $ 1500 • Berklee College of Music - Boston, USA

1992 € 1500 • Anna Whitlocks Minnesfond - Stockholm, Sweden

1991 € 1500 • SE Banken  Scandinavian Bank ) - Gothenburg, Sweden