Daniel Bukvich Musical Instrument collection, 1930-2013

Daniel Bukvich was born and raised in Montana, U.S.A.. He is a Professor of Percussion and Theory, Director of Jazz Choir, University Distinguished Professor, and has taught at the University of Idaho since 1976. He travels throughout the United States and Canada as a guest composer, conductor, and percussionist in concerts with professional, college, high school, and grade school bands, orchestras, choirs, honor and all-state groups and has been known to appear at similar events in Europe and East Asia. His musical compositions and arrangements are performed by orchestras, choirs, bands, soloists, chamber groups and jazz groups around the world.

His teachers have been among the leading composers, conductors, and educators in the Western United States, and Bukvich has absorbed not only their philosophies on music but also their satisfaction with, if not complete desire for, professional and personal obscurity.

He is heavily involved in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and DancersDrummersDreamers, both major events on the U of I campus. Bukvich plays with the Palouse Jazz Project. Crosscurrents.

Among his awards and recognition are: 1998 Mayor's Arts Award for Individual Excellence in the Arts; 2001 Idaho Music Educators Association Music Educator of the Year Award; 2022 Governor's Awards in the Arts Support Of Arts Education