Nick Olynciw.

Nick Olynciw is a Chicago-based pianist, vocalist, and bandleader. A graduate of the University of North Texas and Western Michigan University, he is a First Prize winner of the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition, a Bösendorfer Award recipient, and a two-time DownBeat Award winner.

Nick Olynciw is a pianist, vocalist, and bandleader based in Chicago. He performs regularly at Andy's Jazz Club, the Coq d'Or at the Drake Hotel, and venues across the Midwest.

He studied jazz piano at the University of North Texas (B.M. Jazz Studies, 2016) and Western Michigan University (M.M. Performance, 2019). His teachers include Matthew Fries, Brenda Earle-Stokes, Pat Coil, and Dan Haerle.

Honors include First Prize at the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition (2018), the Bösendorfer Award at the American Jazz Pianist Competition (2018), two DownBeat Student Music Awards (Outstanding Vocal Solo, 2016; Best Graduate Jazz Instrumental Soloist, 2019), and Alternate status with the American Pianists Association (2022). He held a Gilmore Keyboard Festival scholarship in 2017–18.

He works as a leader, accompanist, and sideman. His vocal work is grounded in Somatic Voicework™ — The LoVetri Method (Levels I, II, III). He has taught at the Chicago Academy for the Arts and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and runs a private studio in Chicago. His first album as a leader is scheduled for 2027.