Cory Pesaturo

Cory Pesaturo is an American multi-instrumentalist from Cumberland, Rhode Island, who plays the accordion, piano, clarinet, and saxophone. In 2002, Pesaturo became the youngest person to win the National Accordion Championship. In 2009, Pesaturo won the Coupe Mondiale World Digital Accordion Championship in Auckland, New Zealand, and became the first American to win a World Accordion Championship since Peter Soave 25 years earlier. In 2011, Pesaturo won the Primus Ikaalinen World Acoustic Accordion Championship, as its first American contestant. In 2017, he broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous playing of the accordion, which was sponsored by Red Bull from his relationship with the Red Bull F1 Team. In 2009, Pesaturo won the Leavenworth International Championship and International Jazz Championship. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Pe...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)