Join us for a concert with Styrian accordion player Jakob Steinkellner. With his musical program Denkwechsel (Change of Mindset), Steinkellner highlights the diversity of his instrument by blending Alpine folk music with modern elements.  His performance explores unprecedented artistic worlds for the Styrian accordion, an instrument that has often been associated only with folk music.

Steinkellner's musical arrangements convey a certain lightness of being while displaying colorful influences from a variety of world music. He brings musical wit, artistic sophistication, as well as virtuosity to the stage. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jakob Steinkellner began learning the accordion in 2001. At the age of 14, he passed the entrance exam for the "artistic basic studies" on the accordion at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz in the class of Alfred Melichar. At the same time he began learning the diatonic harmonica. In 2020 Jakob Steinkellner completed his master's degree in accordion pedagogy and accordion concert subject at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with distinction. In addition, he completed the specialization studies “Making Music with People with Disabilities” and “Diatonic Harmonica”. Since 2022, he has been a lecturer at the Munich University of Music and Theater and head of the folk music course. Jakob Steinkellner has performed concerts in countries such as Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, England, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, Slovakia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, Ukraine, Peru, Canada, China, Tanzania, Vietnam, Japan and others.

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