Maciej Frąckiewicz is a one of the most distinguished Polish artists of his generation. He was born in 1988 in Bialystok. He graduated Witold Lutosławski High School of Music in Białystok in Poland. In 2010 he graduated with distinction Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Klaudiusz Baran accordion class. He will continue his education in Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship under Inaki Alberdi in Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona in Spain.
Maciej participated in numerous master classes in Poland and abroad (Ottweiler (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria)) under the most important musicians in accordion world: prof. W. L. Puchnowski, Claudio Jacomucci,Alexander Dmitriev, Mika Vayrynen, Alfred Melichar, Stefan Hussong, Inaki Alberdi, Yuri Shishkin and also with cellist Julius Berger.
He received numerous honors and prizes (more than twenty) at prestigious festivals and music competitions, both in Poland and abroad in Germany, Spain, Slovakia and Italy.
His most important prizes include awards in competitions such as

I prize and Grand Prix at III International Accordion Competition in Poprad (Slovakia) (2003)
I prize at National Accordion Competition in Gdańsk (Poland) (2004)
I prize at XIII i XIV International Accordion Festiwal in Przemyśl (Poland) (2003 and 2004)
II prize at XLII International Accordion Competition in Klingenthal (Germany) (in duo with Magdalena Bojanowicz) (2008)
I prize at III Andrzej Krzanowski Accordion Competition in Czechowice – Dziedzice (Poland) (2008)
Main prize at the VIII Competition of the 20th and 21st Century Music for Young Performers in Radziejowice (Poland) (2009) (organized by polish section of ISCM)
I prize and two other prizes at III Michal Spisak International Music Competition in Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland) (2009)
III prize at XVII International Accordion Competition in Arrasate (Spain) (2009)
I prize at XIII International Accordion Competition „Carlo Civardi” in Val Tidone (Italy) (2010)
Special prize at XIV International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow (Poland) (in duo with Magdalena Bojanowicz) (2010)

In February 2008 he was one of 7 finalist who played on the national final of the '14th Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians'. He performed “Aconcagua Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra” by Piazzolla with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz.
In November 2009 he was a laureat of XXVIII „Talents Week” in Tarnów – Kąśna Dolna (Poland).
In 2010 he represented the Polish Radio in Bratislava (Slovakia) at The International Forum of Young Performers (IFYP) - „New Talent” Competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union.
Maciej’s repertoire ranges wide all the way from transcriptions of the classical music of composers such as Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Albeniz to a huge programme of original literature for the instrument by composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Vagn Holmboe Arne Nordheim, Georg Katzer, Toshio Hosokawa, Bent Lorentzen, Jukka Tiensuu, Andrzej Krzanowski and others.
He is collaborating with Young Circle of Polish Composers Union, and also with famous polish composers such as Paweł Szymański, Dariusz Przybylski, Wojciech Ziemiowit Zych, Wojciech Blecharz.
He received a lot of very important polish scholarships from Polish Children’s Fund, Musical Safety Pin J&S Pro Bono Poloniae Foundation, Marshall of Podlasie district and Minister of Culture. He was awarded the „Młoda Polska” Ministry of Culture Scholarship which he will assign for recorded CD with newest polish music for duo accordion and cello (TWOgether Duo with Magdalena Bojanowicz).
He has performed with Polish Symhonies Orchestras under conductors such as Sławomir Chrzanowski, Zygmunt Rychert, Łukasz Borowicz, Krzysztof Urbański and Young Chill Lee.
He has appeared at a number of festivals in Poland and abroad: „Warsaw Autumn”, „Musica Moderna in Łódź, „Two Days and Two Nights” in Odessa (Ucraina), „Musique au Leman” in Thonon Les Bains (France). In May 2010 he performed recital of pieces written for TWOgether Duo during festival „Musica Polonica Nova” in Wrocław (Poland).
In March 2011 he will premiere dedicated for him Concerto for accordion and orchestra by Dariusz Przybylski with National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice.