Mariusz Bogdanowicz graduated from the Faculty of Jazz and Light Music at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Now he works at the Faculty of Instruments at Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and at the Faculty of Arts at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
He began his career in the Big Band Gdańsk (1978–1981), in the Time Quartet, and in the Heavy Metal Sextet. He formed the first project of his own in 1991, the Mariusz Bogdanowicz Quartet, formed by Mariusz Bogdanowicz: acoustic bass, keyboards, Adam Wendt: tenor and soprano saxophone, Miłosz Wośko: piano, and Sebastian Frankiewicz: drums, cajon, and percussion. Mariusz Bogdanowicz has been a part of Włodzimierz Nahorny's formation for over twenty-five years (Nahorny Trio, Nahorny Sextet, Nahorny Songbook).
In 1995, Bogdanowicz launched a concert agency and a publishing house, Confiteor. The agency has collaborated with Krzysztof Herdzin, Piotr Biskupski, Lora Szafran, Jacek Niedziela-Meira, and with Włodzimierz Nahorny and his bands (trio and sextet). As a publicist he has collaborated with Jazz Forum magazine, and Top Guitar magazine. Between 2004 and 2008 he had his own radio programme Jazz Travels, and then, after closure of this station, Jazz For People broadcast online at RadioJazz.FM. His guests included Włodzimierz Nahorny, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Włodek Pawlik, Krzysztof Ścierański, Maciej Sikała, Sławek Jaskułke, Sławomir Kulpowicz, Wojciech Majewski, Piotr Schmidt, Sebastian Frankiewicz. Bogdanowicz is also a journalist. He has interviewed Włodzimierz Nahorny, Wojciech Karolak, Maciej Sikała, Piotr Lemański, Krzysztof Herdzin, and Jacek Nidziela-Meira (Jazz Forum).
He has performed at the Jazz Jamboree ’83, ’99, ’01, Umbria Jazz ’84 (Italy), Pori Jazz ’87, ’88 (Finland), Ingolstadter Jazztage ’92 (Germany), Warsaw Summer Jazz Days ’93, Gdynia Summer Jazz Days ’94, Jazz Nad Odrą ’82, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’94 and ’14, Central European Culture Festival ’98 in London, International Performing Arts Festival SHAPE 2000 in Belgium, Corso Polonia ’03 in Rome, Edinburgh Jazz Festival ’03 (Scotland), Shanghai Summer Music Festival ’03 (China), Kaunas Jazz ’03 (Lithuania), Nowa Polska ’04 in Paris, Festival of Stars in Międzyzdroje ’04, Leverkusener Jazztage ’06 (Germany), Jazz.fr Festival ’14 in Zagreb.
He cooperated with Ewa Bem, Lora Szafran, Urszula Dudziak, Edyta Geppert, Hanna Banaszak, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Andrzej Jagodziński, Sławomir Kulpowicz, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Zbigniew Preisner, Jarosław Śmietana, Wiesław Pieregorólka, Jacek Kaczmarski, Marek Bałata, Krzysztof Herdzin, David Gołoszczokin, Sergiey Davidov, Richard Ross, Michelle Hendrix, Deborah Brown, Bill Molenhof.
The musician also has links to the theatre. In Warsaw’s Rampa Theatre, he was the music manager for the performances Żyd (The Jew, trans. MG) and Być Jak Frank Sinatra (Be Like Frank Sinatra, trans. MG; both 2012). Together with the ensemble, he accompanied the performance Kobieta Z Widokiem Na Taras (Woman with View of the Terrace, trans. MG) at Warsaw’s Polonia Theatre (premiere 2010), as well as Emigranci (Emigrants, trans. MG) and Idź W Noc, Margot (Go into the Night, Margot, trans. MG) of the Provisorium Theatre in Lublin.
For his contributions to Polish culture, Mariusz Bogdanowicz was decorated with the Gloria Artis Medal in 2005. Since 2006, he has been teaching double bass, bass guitar and instrumental bands at the Faculty of Arts of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, where he is employed as an assistant professor. In March 2012, the Council of the Instrumental Faculty of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz awarded him a degree of Doctor of Arts.
In 2012, he established his new project Przy Tobie. Its programme includes songs composed by Bogdanowicz to lyrics by Wojciech Młynarski, Andrzej Poniedzielski, Jan Wołek, Marek Gaszyński, Justyna Holm, Wojciech Ziembicki, and Maria Przybysz, performed by vocalists associated with the Artistic Department of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.