Results for "Dima Bondarev"

Julia Perminova: The Way to Her Star

by Jane Kozhevnikova
July 18, 2022

Originally born in the United States, jazz has become a language that people speak all over the world. For Julia Perminova, a pianist and composer from the Siberian city of Tyumen, now living in Basel, Switzerland, jazz is a native language. Although her music talent was natural, her hard work and true passion have made her ...

Dialogue, Denouement

May 6, 2020

Album: In Pieces Suite
By Danil Zverkhanovsky
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Duration: 07:03

Dima Bondarev

Born: December 6, 1984

Born in 1984 in Ukraine, Dima Bondarev began playing the trumpet at the age of nine. Initially studying classical music, he soon discovered his passion for jazz. Between 2008 and 2013, Dima was highly active in his homeland, performing at major jazz festivals and concert tours. He was a member of the renowned Ukrainian jazz bands Acoustic Quartet and Magnifika Group.

In 2011 and 2016, he was awarded the Polish Cultural Scholarship “Gaude Polonia,” allowing him to study in Warsaw and Wrocław with Piotr Wojtasik and Robert Majewski.

Since 2013, Dima has been based in Berlin, where he pursued both Bachelor’s and Master’s studies at the Jazz Institut Berlin (JIB) under the mentorship of Gerard Presencer, Tom Arthurs, and Sebastian Studnitzky, as well as John Hollenbeck, Greg Cohen, Geoffrey De Masure, Julia Hülsmann, Tino Derado, Guilherme Castro, and Javier Reyes. During his studies, he received the JIB-Jazz-Preis der Karl Hofer Gesellschaft (2015) and the Deutschlandstipendium (2017). Shortly after earning his Master’s degree in composition in 2020, he was awarded the Elsa-Neumann Stipendium.

I'm Wondering

By Dima Bondarev

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Insomnia 2. Above The Skies 3. Detroit 4. Universum 5. Never 6. Eight Days a Week 7. Balalaev's Dreams 8. Golden Mean 9. Stolen Area

In Pieces Suite

By Danil Zverkhanovsky

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Exposition, Pt. 1; Exposition, Pt. 2; Monologue; Digression; Climax; Dialogue, Denouement;