Zuzana Dumková is a singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist. She comes from a family of musicians and teachers and, after her great-uncle Jan Fadrhons and her father Jan Dumek, is the third generation of composers. She has played the guitar since the age of ten, gained her first experience in the Kühn Children’s Choir and graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. She has been active on the scene since the early 1990s, moving from folk to fusions of rock, jazz and world music. For more than twenty years she has worked with the saxophonist Marcel Bárta, and Michal Nejtek, Tomáš Liška, Daniel Šoltis and Andrés Ibarburu have also played with her in the Zuzana Dumková Band. In 2017 she won the Singer of the Year award at the Tais Awards. On Amplión Records she released the albums Balance (2007, Anděl nomination) and Kompas (2015) and sings on the album Jazz Pictures About My Country (2012). More at zuzanadumkova.cz.
