Elina Duni

Elina Duni (born 10 March 1981, Tirana, Albania) is a Swiss-Albanian jazz singer and composer.

[1] She went on to study singing, composition and teaching at the University of the Arts Bern,[2] but from 2004 onwards Albanian folk music became a prime influence.

At this moment, in 2004, she formed a quartet under her own name with the Swiss jazz pianist Colin Vallon, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Norbert Pfammatter.

In 2017, she was nominated to receive the annual Swiss Music Prize and in 2018 she released the album Partir, a solo programme in which she accompanies herself on piano, acoustic guitar and percussion.

[4][5] Duni lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and collaborates with British guitarist Rob Luft, with whom she has released two albums on ECM Records.