Dominik Wania

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Dominik Wania (2020)
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Dominik Wania (born November 24, 1981 in Sanok ) is a Polish jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Wania started taking classical piano lessons at the age of three. In 2005 he completed his training as a classical concert pianist at the Kraków Music Academy with Andrzej Pikul with distinction. Between 2006 and 2008 he studied on a scholarship at the New England Conservatory in Boston as a jazz musician with Danilo Pérez , Jerry Bergonzi , George Garzone , Ran Blake , Allan Chase and Frank Carlberg.

Wania has worked with musicians such as Tomasz Stańko , Marcus Miller , Dave Liebman , Lee Konitz , Anders Jormin , Gary Thomas , George Garzone, Eddie Henderson , Marilyn Mazur , Joey Baron , Nguyên Lê , Don Byron , Zbigniew Namysłowski and Janusz Muniak . He released the album Ravel with his own trio and performed at the Bonn Jazz Festival . Since 2011 he has been part of the quartet and since 2013 also to the International Quartet of Maciej Obara , with whom he has released several albums and is on tour internationally.

He also teaches as a university professor at the Kraków Music Academy and at the Institute for Jazz in Katowice.

Prizes and awards

In 1998 Wania won the cultural award of his native city. In 2003 he received first prize at the chamber music competition in Cracow and in 2005 first prize at the jazz piano competition in Warsaw. In 2014 he received the Gwarancja Kultury award in the jazz, rock and other category . In the same year he was awarded two Fryderyks by the Polish Phonographic Academy for his album Ravel in the categories "Jazz Album of the Year" and "Debut of the Year". In 2019 he received the BMW Welt Jazz Award with the Maciej Obara International Quartet .

Discographic notes

  • Nak Trio: The Other Side of If ( Double Moon Records , 2015, with Michał Kapczuk, Jacek Kochan)
  • Dominik Wania Trio: Ravel (For Tune, 2013, with Max Mucha and Dawid Fortuna)
  • Bronisław Suchanek & Dominik Wania: Sketch in Blue (2008)
  • Geni Skendo & Dominik Wania: Portraits (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bonn Jazz Festival
  2. ↑ portrait
  3. ↑ Jazz Forum
  4. ↑ Maciej Obara Quartet wins the BMW Welt Jazz Award 2019
  5. ↑ meeting (Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Wania, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanok