"Gary Jankowski's burnished, beautiful bass makes you lean forward in anticipation of Sarastro's arias" wrote the Seattle Times. His "Colline [was] well drawn and beautifully sung" (Chicago Sun-Times). His Osmin in Abduction from the Seraglio was "brilliantly sung ... and his vocal prowess first-rate" (Herald Telephone). Of his performance in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, the German arts magazine Indiz wrote, "Facial expression, gestures, and physical presence make Jankowski's portrayal extraordinary." His career reflects the depth and range of his talent. Both the opulence of his vocal resources and his critically acclaimed acting make him a favorite with audiences.

Bass Gary Jankowski, a native of Seattle, studied Music History and was active as a choral conductor of many student ensembles at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington before entering the graduate program in Voice at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. In the USA, he has appeared in the opera houses of Chicago, Milwaukee, Orlando, Indianapolis, San José and Cincinnati, as Sarastro, Osmin, the Commendatore, and as Colline in La Bohème. In 1995, he moved to Germany, and engagements in Nuremberg, Schwerin, Rostock and Halle/Saale followed, with festival appearances at the Händel-Festspiele Halle, Festival Castell de Peralada, Donostia/San Sebastian, Schlossfestspiele Schwerin, Dorset Opera and the Festungsspiele Ehrenbreitstein, in addition to guest appearances in Leipzig, Bremen, Kiel, Lübeck, Zwickau and Neustrelitz. Among his most important roles in Europe have been König Marke in Tristan und Isolde, Fafner in Das Rheingold, Ramfis in Aida, Basilio in Barber of Seville, and again Colline and the Commendatore. The Water Gnome in Rusalka, Osmin in Entführung aus dem Serail and Freiherr von Mordax in the award-winning world premiere production of Detlev Glanert's Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung are among his most recent projects. In May 2006, Gary Jankowski made his critically acclaimed debut as Baron Ochs von Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier.

As a concert singer, he has appeared with, among others, the Chautauqua, Cedar Rapids and Northwest Indiana symphony orchestras, Orchestra Seattle, the Seattle Chamber Singers, the Crue Consort, the Pacific Northwest Chamber Chorus, the New Whatcom Choral Society and the Louisville Chorus.

He also has a passionate interest in early music. Of particular note was a program of baroque solo cantatas with organ under the sponsorship of the German Consulate
San Francisco in 2002.

Among the highpoints of his activity as a recitalist was his collaboration with pianist Gabriel Dobner in Schubert's Die Winterreise presented at numerous venues in the USA und Europe. Other interests include cinema, reading and travel.