Dominik Bukowski

In 1998 he continued his studies at the jazz music department of the Music Academy of Katowice, where he graduated in 2002. In 1999 he and his band Blue Mind Quartet were singled out for special praise in the “Ogólnopolski Przeglad Mlodych Zespolów Jazzowych i Bluesowych” in Gdynia. In January 2002 the band received first prize in the prestigious competition Bielskiej Zadymki Jazzowej in Bielsko-Biala and Dominik was presented with a statuette “Jazz Angel 2002”, and also had their first album produced and released.

From 2003 to 2012 he was awarded second place in the Jazz Top review from Jazz Forum magazine in the “Vibraphone of The Year” category. He was nominated for the “Grand Prix Jazz Melomani 2003” in the category “Hope of Music Connoisseur 2003” and “Storm of 2005” by the Gdansk edition of Gazeta Wyborcza daily. He was also nominated by “Dziennik Baltycki” in a plebiscite “Man of the Year 2005”.

His album “Projektor” was rated one of the top ten albums of 2005 by Jazz Forum magazine and in 2010 his album “Vice Versa” was nominated for the FRYDERYKI Award. In 2013 “Kropla Slowa”, the album of Krystyna Stanko for which Bukowski composed most of the music, was chosen as the best album of the year by Jazz Forum magazine. Also as a sideman he was awarded The Gold Disc for “Melisa” by Przemek Dyakowski. In 2011 he received the Artistic Award from the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship. His album “SUFIA” from 2016 received many excellent reviews and appeared in several annual critics’ polls as one of the best albums of the year.

Dominik Bukowski has played and recorded with musicians such as Amir ElSaffar, Cikada Quartet, Nigel Kennedy, Soweto Kinch, Tim Hagans, Janusz Muniak, Leszek Mozdzer, Piotr Wojtasik, Maciej Sikala, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski and others. He has performed at many Polish jazz festivals and abroad (Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Russia and most European countries).