Composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, known for his charismatic and lively introductions with the leading role of the violin in the rock-metal company of guitars and drums. A member of the Hunter and Our Days Band.

“Jelonek” is also the name, artistic nickname and title of the solo musical project of the violinist Michał Jelonek. “Jelonek” is for the most part instrumental music with the leading role of the violin and string instruments in the rock metal company of guitars and drums. In addition to his own songs, “Jelonek” performs rock “alterations” of classical music by such composers as Vivaldi, Paganini, Chopin, Khachaturian, Rossini and other classics as well as Jimi Hendrix, Beastie Boys and BoneyM.

1989 defense of diploma in P.S.M. them. L. Różycki in Kielce in the violin class of prof. Andrzej Zuzański, summarized by the performance of L. van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, accompanied by the Kielce Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
1989-1994 studies at the University of Jan Kochanowski in Kielce at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts with a specialization in the violin class, culminating in the defense of the thesis.

1989-1994 cooperation with the Symphony Orchestra and the Kielce Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra as well as with the “Collegium Musicum” string quintet
1992-1994 cooperation with “Theater Diaspora”
1992-2020 cooperation with the bands: “Ankh”, “Closterkeller”, “Chemia”, “BigCyc”, “De Press”, “Farben Lehre”, “Firebirds”, “Freak of Nature”, “Grejfrut”, “Harlem” , “Hunter”, “Kasa”, “Lizar”, “Loca”, “Tears”, “Mafia”, “Maybe-b”, “Normalsi”, “Orchestra of Our Days”, “Pectus”, “Perfect”, ” Burned Coffee Three “” Riverside “,” Szwagierkolaska “,” Women’s Theater “, Music Theater in Łódź,” Transgresja “,” Tosteer “,” T-Rappers from the Vistula River “,” Tres-B “,” Wolves “and many others .

Cooperation with artists: Maryla Rodowicz, Kora, Małgorzata Ostrowska, Paulla, Ilona Sojda, Wojciech Gąsowski, Piotr Fronczewski, Stan Borys, Tomasz Lipiński, Wojciech Hoffmann, Kamil Bednarek and others. December 2007 premiere of the solo album “Jelonek”
XI 2011 premiere of the second solo album entitled “Revenge”

November 2019 premiere of the third solo album called “Classical Massacre”

Michał Jelonek has recorded over 60 co-authored albums and over 90 albums featuring (classical, pop, r’n’b, folk, rock and metal). He has won many competitions and festivals, including Jarocin 93, four times the Golden Bączek Award Woodstock WOŚP and others.
Several times selected as one of the best Polish instrumentalists (1993-magazine “Only Rock”, 1994-Siedlce “Rock 94”, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 – the magazine “Teraz Rock”, “Metal Hammer” and other).

Nominated several times for “Fryderyk”.
In 2008, together with the “Ankh” band, he was awarded the medal by the Minister of Culture and Art for “Promoting Polish culture abroad”.
In 2017, he was awarded the medal for merits for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.
In the period from 1993. until 2020 He has played over 4,000 concerts in Poland as well as in England, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Mexico, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
He acts as a music producer, session musician, records music for films, theater performances and commercials.