Bela Meinberg Trio - Akkolo (2022)

Béla Meinberg lives in Berlin and balances between straight ahead, free improvisation and various other styles. The idea of being able to produce serious music with a certain amount of nonsense drove him to decide early on to become a jazz musician. Béla has already had the privilege of working with great musicians such as: Billy Hart, Seamus Blake, Matt Penman, Chris Cheek, Doug Weiss and John Stowell.

Béla was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and winner of the first Steinway Prize for jazz piano solo. In 2017 he won third place at the Germany-wide Yamaha Jazz Piano Competition in Nuremberg and in 2018 he and the David Grabowski Quartet came second out of 40 applicants at the "Young Munich Jazz Prize".