Daniel (Dano) Šoltis is one of the most distinctive Czech-Slovak drummers. He was born in 1982 in Košice and has played the drums since the age of eight. After the conservatory in Košice he studied from 1999 at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague, and in 2012 he earned a master’s degree in the jazz department of the Academy of Music in Katowice. In 2002 he co-founded the Czech-Slovak band Vertigo (originally Vertigo Quintet), which won the Anděl award for its debut album (2005) and for Metamorphosis (2011). He teaches drums at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. He also plays in the Jazz Dock Orchestra big band. On Amplión Records he plays on the albums Vertigo Quintet (2005), the solo Drum Song (2012), Phoenix (2015) and Live at Divadlo 29 (2019). More at danosoltis.com.
