Eugen Gondi is a Romanian-born jazz drummer.

He graduated from the Arts Middle School in his hometown.

He started his musical career by playing with the "Paul Weiner Free Jazz" trio.

He has played with many famous Romanian jazz players, like Marius Popp, Johnny Răducanu

Johnny Raducanu

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, Garbis Dedeian, Radu Goldiş

Radu Goldis

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, Pedro Negrescu, Dan Mândrilă, Jan Jankeje, Liviu Butoi. For a time, in 1974, he was the drummer of rock band Transsylvania Phoenix

Transsylvania Phoenix

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He is a former member of Mircea Florian's concept-band Ceata Melopoică.

He parrticipated at several jazz festivals, such as the ones in Ploieşti

Ploiesti

Ploiești is the county seat of Prahova County and lies in the historical region of Wallachia in Romania. The city is located north of Bucharest....

, Sibiu

Sibiu

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, San Sebastián

San Sebastián

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, Warsaw

Warsaw

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, Přerov

Prerov

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, and Ljubliana.

Currently residing in The Netherlands.

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eugen+Gondi
• http://pipl.com/directory/people/Eugen/Gondi