Classical accordionist Iwo Jedynecki is the winner of top prizes at over thirty international music competitions, and has performed in his home country of Poland, the United States, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, Austria, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, and Italy. He regularly collaborates and performs with three different award-winning duos: pianist Aleksander Krzyżanowski, accordionist Hubert Giziewski, and in Duo Karolina Mikołajczyk & Iwo Jedynecki, where a video of one of his violin-accordion transcriptions gained more than a million combined views on Facebook and YouTube. In 2019 he worked with world-renowned composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, receiving official approval to perform his violin-accordion arrangement of the Sonata no. 1 for Violin and Piano. He received his doctoral degree in 2022 from The Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music Bydgoszcz in Poland with a dissertation about 19th Century music for piano and harmonium. Upon receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, this fall he begins his studies as the first ever classical accordion Artist Diploma student of New York University.
