Sophie Dunér is a highly versatile singer, composer & improviser from Sweden. With her roots in jazz, she is influenced by avant garde and contemporary classical writing. Blending the romantic and the spiritually elevated with a dissonant, bold and satirical edge, she plays with tense colours resolving into romantic harmony. She likes contrast and dynamics. Sophie draws heavily on a variety of composers such as Kurt Weill, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Hans Werner Henze, Dizzy Gillespie & Igor Stravinsky. Sophie has performed with musicians such as Dominic Duval Sr, Craig Harris, Tommy Campbell, Donny McCaslin, Gene Pritsker, Matt Penmann, Kahlil Kwame Bell, Rory Stuart etc. Appearances at venues include Carnegie Hall, Birdland, Charles Mingus Jazz Festival, CBGB's, The ShapeShifter Lab, Symphony Space, Small's (US) Concertgebouw (NL) Festival O/Modernt, Gothenburg Symphony Hall , Stockholm New Music Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival (SE) Jazz en La Costa, Circulo de Bellas Artes (ES) The Pizza Express (UK) etc. Upcoming 2024 performances include appearances at Nublu, Spectrum & Carnegie Hall in NYC. 

'Outstanding Scat Vocals' - The New York City Jazz Record

'A weirded up Anita O'Day' - Music Web International

'You sing the shit out of the horn players' - Hal Crook, trombonist / Berklee jazz improvisation teacher

‘As a composer, lyricist and vocalist we pretty much have to acknowledge that Sophie is a genuine triple threat.’ - Cadence Magazine

'Improvising like a jazz horn. Many such singers have claimed this distinction, but only a handful, Dunér, Mark Murphy and Anita O’Day among them, have ever really achieved this.' - The Art Music Lounge

'From Ella to Schoenberg' - Music Web International

'A musical omnivore' - Jazz da Gama