Thomas Hrynkiw began his studies with Joseph Jacobs and Anne Leva and later studied with Dora Zaslavsky at Manhattan School of Music. He has been hailed as a pianist of dramatic power and poetry. At the age of nineteen, he won first prize for a performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with Leopold Stokowski conducting.

In 1967 Mr. Hrynkiw won the gold medal at the Geneva Competition, and soon after, the Frank Huntington Beebe Award, the Harold Bauer Award and the National Music Teachers Association Award. Mr. Hrynkiw has played major concerts both in Europe and the United States. His appearances include performances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Constitution Hall in Philadelphia. He appears annually at the Newport Festival in Rhode Island and is also music advisor, senior artist and vocal director to their director. Mr. Hrynkiw also performs in countless other festivals in many locales. One of the most sought after performers of chamber music, he has recorded accompaniments to more than 800 works and solo pieces, including the Four Ballades and the Four Scherzi of Chopin, for Disklavier PianoSoft. He has had a long association with Metropolitan Opera basso Paul Plishka, performing recitals not only in America but abroad, including appearances in the former Soviet Union.