Michael Rettig

Michael Rettig (born 1990 in Pforzheim) began teaching the button accordion (Vitali Neifert) and the Styrian harmonica (Hubert Klausner) at the age of 12. With both instruments he has won several prizes at various competitions, including: World Championship for Styrian Harmonica 2007 and 2009, German Accordion Music Prize 2006 and 2009, Roland V-Accordion Festival 2012. Further engagements led to TV and radio, concert tours (including to Moscow) and various festivals and concerts at home and abroad. From 2010 to 2017 he studied accordion with Prof. Grzegorz Stopa at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with a second major in jazz piano. In 2018, Michael Rettig was a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. Since completing his studies, he has worked as a teacher for accordion, Styrian harmonica and jazz piano at various music schools, as a lecturer at various seminars and as a musician in versatile formations and as a soloist.

Since 2010 Michael Rettig has been arranging and composing for the accordion and for the Styrian harmonica. The focus here is on the expansion of traditional literature with new, more modern and more versatile arrangements and compositions for a more diverse way of making music.