Sophie Dunér started her musical career in the USA. She studied at Berklee College of Music, impressing her improvisation teacher Hal Crook, who commented that she “sang the shit out of the horn players…”
Sophie also studied with Ed Tomassi and George Garzone. She enjoyed vocal studies with Mili Bermejo and Jan Shapiro and studied classical composition with Tom McGagh.

Sophie enters lightly into any genre with a precise feeling and sensibility. She is especially familiar with jazz, cabaret, ethno and contemporary new music. Many composers and musicians have engaged her for collaborations during later years.
Being a composer as well as a singer, she writes jazz inspired by contemporary music and theatre with a modern edge. Her lyrics are very much connected to the energy of the tunes and she always tries to make the arrangement work closely to it.

In the spring of 2004 Karlheinz Stockhausen approached her after having heard her singing on a recording. He asked if she would be capable of a soprano part in his music, and suggested that she participate in his Stockhausen Music Courses and it’s subdivision Vocal Interpretation, which she did in August of 2004. She returned to the Stockhausen Courses in Kürten in 2005 supported by a ¤3300 grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

During spring 2005 Sophie appeared at the jazz/cabaret clubs Pizza on the Park and Pizza Express Jazz Club in London’s Soho District with pianist Simon Colman. In April 2005 she performed at the Swedish Embassy in Madrid, and she also sang the Swedish National Anthem at Frölunda Indians’ hockey game in the Gothenburg Scandinavium Arena, broadcast by Swedish Television and American station Fox TV.

Her art was exhibited all summer 2005 at a Gummeson Gallery joint exhibition in Stockholm.

In early September 2005 Sophie Dunér recorded a new jazz CD with her own theatrically inspired jazz compositions on C.I.M.P. Records (Creative Improvised Music Project) in Redwood, Upstate New York, with the musicians Rory Stuart, Matt Penmann and Khalil Kwame Bell, produced by Robert D Rusch, who said:

“I was impressed by her form-filling yet ethereal vocal integration 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)

Sophie Dunér performed at the Kavehaz Jazz Gallery in NYC on 1 September 2005.

On the 15 - 18 of the same month she performed and exhibited her art at the same Gallery Gummeson’s in Stockholm, Sweden. In connection with this exhibition she was interviewed by Ingvar Loco Nordin, proprietor of SONOLOCO Record Reviews, who also made an unofficial recording of her third Gummeson concert, when keyboard player Samuel Starck and double bassist David Lindvall accompanied her. The interview is published at Sonoloco.

She has worked with her group The Sophie Dunér Orchestra, which she started in Boston in the beginning of the 90s. Composing contemporary jazz at the time, Sophie and her orchestra performed in the USA at clubs such as the Willow Jazz Club, Sculler´s, Birdland, Cornelia Street Café and The Western Front.
They traveled to the Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan - a tour sponsored by Berklee College of Music, which also enabled her to record and release her debut album Orange in 1994.
The Stockholm Jazz & Blues Festival and The Baltic Jazz Festival brought her to Scandinavia, with resulting TV and radio appearances.

The Sophie Dunér Orchestra has included musicians such as Mika Pohjola, George Dontchev, Kazumi Ikenaga, Bruno Råberg, David Boato and Roberto Dani.
Sophie also toured extensively in Finland two consecutive summers with pianist Mika Pohjola.

In Boston in 1995, Argentinean composer Guillermo Klein invited Sophie to perform & record a CD with his big band The Big Van, featuring musicians such as Chris Cheek and Seamus Blake. Sophie is also featured on his CD El Minotauro in 1998. They played clubs in the Boston – New York area like Sculler’s and Small’s Jazz Club with musicians such as the aforementioned Chris Cheek and Seamus Blake, as well as with Aaron Goldberg and Mark Turner.
Another Argentinean, Fernando Tarrés, invited her to sing La Finadita on his album The Outsider on Savant Records, New York with his Arida Conta Group featuring D. Pérez, D. Rieser, D. McCaslin and F. Huergo. Sophie Dunér also appears on his album Prausagios da Carnaval on BAU Records, Argentina.

Herb Pomeroy of Boston had her featured in his big band, using a vocalist for the first time. David Doms of Universal You invited her to perform at CBGB´s in NYC, also featuring her on his album Garden of Delight for Gruvetune Records, Boston.
Playwright Thamare Thorne invited her to collaborate with a classical ensemble performing the play The Seven Last Words at The Theater of the New City in NYC.

Pianist Aaron Goldberg had her sing with his trio at King's Theater in Boston featuring Mark Turner and 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. She went on tours in Spain with the same ensemble, performing at cultural centers and on TV in Madrid and Galicia. Her collaboration with Manuel Ceide 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.

She was off to Puerto Rico in 1998, giving performances and workshops at the University of Puerto Rico with the music of Manuel Ceide and Francis Schwartz. She also performed 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 saxophonist/composer Juerg Wickihalder. She recorded as co composer & singer on the CD Dance With Me, with the big band Interplay Collective, Dreamscape Music, also performing at clubs and festivals in Switzerland and Germany. The band contained musicians like Matt Pennmann, Jean Yves Roucand and Jean Luc Boudjedid. In 2002 and 2003 she returned to Zurich appearing at the Festival Aum Braunwald as co composer & singer in the Octet of J. Wickihalder. She also sang with pianist Chris Wiesendanger at Mood's Jazz Club and at Holenstein Kultur Zenter.

Argentine NYC-based composer Laura Andel and composer/vibraphonist Oli Bott invited Sophie to perform with their 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 the sole foreign vocalist.

In 1997 Sophie received ¤ 4000 from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Moving to Spain in 1996, Sophie performed with her band at Jazz en La Costa with The Sophie Dunér Orchestra, Homenaje a Garcia Lorca with The Art Trio, Getxo Jazz Festival, V1 Festival de Jazz de Lugo with The Matrix Quartet, Circulo de Bellas Artes, (sponsored by SAS & the Swedish Embassy in Madrid) Aula Cultural Plaza Catalunya, Centro Cultural de Garcia Lorca etc.

She collaborated with Joaquin Chacón, Dan Rochlis, Agustín Gerenu, Enzo Fillipone, Pablo Fz Arrieta, Juanjo Ortí, Valentín Iturat, Victor Merlo, Laura Pedreira, Polo Ortí and Dan Rochlis. She recorded with the Spanish/Arabic fusion group Dobra Group on Phorminx Records and on the album Reggae Women featuring Rita Marley on Arcade Records, and she worked for TV channels such as Televisión Espanola, Canal Plus and Canal Digital.

Sophie formed a duo with pianist/composer Polo Orti, as she also did with guitarist Dan Rochils, appearing on concert stages around Spain.

She maintained a position as jazz coach and improvisation teacher at the jazz school Escuela Música Creativa in Madrid. She also gave master classes in schools and universities like The Serpent School in Zurich (Women in Music), University of Puerto Rico (The Avant-garde Voice), The Utrecht Conservatory (Música de Vanguardia) and Centro Cultural de Villalba, Instituto de Butarque.

Maintaining the contact with her native Sweden, she has given concerts in the Stenhammar Auditorium at the Gothenburg Symphony Hall two summers in a row, inviting Peter Nylander, Patrick Andrén, Arne Tengstrand, Filip Agustsson, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Jon Persson to play with her. She followed up with the TV show Good Morning TV 4 and several radio programs and newspaper interviews. In Stockholm she performed at renowned Mosebacke with pianist Patrick Andrén and at The Glenn Miller Café with guitarist Palle Pesonen.

In January 2004 Sophie met with The Michael Nyman Band saxophonist John Harle in London. Harle stated: "…you remind me of producing Ute Lemper eight years ago".
Another project prevented Harle from producing a new CD of Sophie’s songs himself, but Sophie also received attention from people such as the Divine Comedy producer Darren Alisson.
Giles Stanley of the BBC Management who introduced her music to Jon Jacobs stated "…its hard to find singers with intelligent music [but Sophie Dunér is one of them!]".