Kazimierz Jonkisz

Jonkisz's musical education began at age 10 with accordion lessons at his high school.

He has worked and recorded with Polish jazz musicians such as: Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Adam Makowicz, Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski, Michał Urbaniak and Mieczyslaw Kosz.

He has played with American jazz musicians such as Al Cohn, Roy Hargrove, Larry Coryell, Amina Claudine Myers, Monty Waters, Eddie Henderson, Kevin Mahogany, John Hicks, Bob Sheppard, Larry Goldings, and Tim Hagans.

For 15 years, he has taught drums at the jazz department of the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.

Along with teachers from Berklee College of Music and Musik Hoch Schule from Graz, he regularly teaches drums at the summer jazz workshop in Puławy, Poland.