Career
After growing up at Gjøvik he got a bachler in fotball from Norges Idrettshøgskole, and a master in musicology at University of Oslo. He has participated on releases by Jon Eberson (Stash, 1988), Jon Balke (Nonsentration, 1990) and Knut Værnes (1993). He cooperated with Rickie Lee Jones, Randy Crawford, Doctor John, January Eggum (Deilig, 1999) and January Garbarek.
He led his own orchestra "Meridians of Music" (with such musical profiles as Terje Rypdal, Bugge Wesseltoft, Eivind Aarset and Jon Balke), and the "Torbjørn Sunde Octet" (with Jon Eberson, Rob Waring, Morten Halle, Håvard Lund, Trude Eick, Aslak Hartberg and Jens Petter Antonsen) with album releases.
He also had his own Quartet with Tom Olstad, Roy Powell and Per Mathisen (The Blue Note sessions). Sunde was in the childhood and adolescents, a very promising speedskater representing "Gjøvik Skøiteklub".
Sunde participated in three sprint New Mexico (Norgesmesterskap) in 1971, 1972 and 1973, with a 9th place as the best in 1973. He is the younger brother of speedskater Arnulf Sunde (1976 Winter Olympics participant).