Victor Preito is the most requested accordionist in New York City. A native of Galicia, Spain, Victor holds a Bachelor's Degree in performance and Jazz composition from Berklee College of Music (MA) and a Classical Accordion Diploma from Ourense Conservatory (Spain).


Styles: Italian (all classics), Oktoberfest - German Brauhaus Musik, Tango (Astor Piazzola), French, Brazilian, Spanish, Mexican, Celtic, Jazz Standards and Klezmer music.

Victor works regularly for "Yo-Yo Ma" and has performed and recorded (Yo-Yo Ma, Songs of Joy and Peace, Sony BMG Masterworks. "2010 Grammy Winning Album")


The prices represent the highest quality of Music and professionalism that I offer to my costumers. Five ***** Stars.


I can provide you, accordion solo, duo (with guitar, bass, violin, singer), Trio (bass and drums plus singer) also I can also offer you a duo with bagpipe.

Tuna: A University Tuna is a musical group in Spain, made up of university students that perform spanish music (boleros, rumba, flamenco..etc) The costumes are always the center of attention at any party.

Tuna options:
3 people - accordion, guitar-singer and violin, OR
2 people - accordion, guitar-singer

You will hire not any accordionist but one of the best accordionists in the international and New York music scene. Please find me on the web.

Victor Prieto is a native of Galicia, Spain born in the town of Orense in 1975. At the age of nine Victor was encouraged by his mother to study the accordion-an instrument deeply ingrained in Galician folklore. While studying classical accordion at the Orense Conservatory Victor understood the immense musical potential of his instrument and branched out from the classical education by concurrently taking harmony, arrangement and improvisation classes at Estudio Escola de Musica (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). In 1998 Victor received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music where he majored in performance under the direction of Joanne Brackeen. Berklee, where Victor was the only one to date to specialize in accordion, did not offer any classes focusing on accordion. Uninhibited by these circumstances Victor created his own study program applying the expertise offered by educators at Berklee to the accordion.

Today Victor Prieto is revolutionizing the way that the accordion is played by creating new sounds and techniques for this instrument. His music embraces Jazz, Tango, Classical and Celtic Roots enriched with new rhythms and colors. He is the creator of a new technique for the accordion called "chord approach on both hands", which creates rich and elaborate harmonies.

In 2002 Victor moved to New York where he quickly established himself as one of the most prolific and versatile accordionists on the music and Jazz scenes. As a leader Victor has performed at many prestigious venues and events such as Berklee Performance Center, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blue Note NY, New Jersey Performance Art Center, Three Rivers Musical Festival, Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center.

Victor has performed and recorded with Yo-Yo Ma (Songs of Joy and Peace, Sony BMG Masterworks. "2010 Grammy Winning Album"), Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Billy Hart, Chris Cheek, Paquito D'Rivera, Matt Wilson, Donny McCaslin, Lionel Louke among others and is involved in projects such as The Maria Schneider Orchestra and Emilio Solla's Jazz Tango conspiracy.

He teaches Master Classes in Spain, Italy, Portugal, USA and has headed the jazz accordion studies at the Brooklyn Conservatory (2003 – 2004). He is a recipient of numerous awards and prizes for excellence in accordion performance and composition, among them are: the Creative Performer award from the Spanish Association of Artists and Performers, and the first prize at CMZK's Concourse of Composition (Argentina).

Victor now lives in New York City dividing his time between performing, teaching and recording. He has recently introduced his third recording, "Chris Cheek and V. Prieto. Rollo-Coaster.", Cheekus Music.