Previous accolades include the Neeme Järvi Prize at the 2023 Gstaad Menhuin Festival and First Prize at the 2023 International Hans von Bülow Meiningen Competition in the category Conducting from the Piano, where Dawidiuk also garnered their Audience Choice Award and two other special prizes. In August 2022, he was the overall victor of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in the organ category (not awarded since 2001) and was subsequently awarded the special prize of the City of Bonn and a recording deal with the GENUIN label in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, which resulted in the release of his album in late 2023. In 2019, Dawidiuk comprehensively swept the TONALi19 Piano Competition in Hamburg as the overall winner as well as the recipient of the audience choice award, the Christoph Eschenbach Prize, and half a dozen other categories. That same year, he came first in the 2019 International Young Organist Competition Moscow, having previously won first prize at the 2018 London Organ Competition and the 2016 Schumann Competition in Zwickau.

Born in Hannover, Aurel Dawidiuk began his musical education at the age of six and later studied piano with Roland Krüger and organ with Martin Sander. He subsequently studied conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller at the Zürich University of the Arts, where he also took piano lessons with Till Fellner. He has since attended master classes with Paavo Järvi, Joana Mallwitz and Pierre-André Valade, and counts among his mentors Gabriele Leporatti, Ulrike Adler and Hatto Beyerle. At Germany’s nationwide competition Jugend musiziert, Dawidiuk was awarded a total of seven first federal prizes as well as special prizes and scholarships in various categories, including from the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Carl Bechstein-Stiftung and Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund.