Netta Skog is a Finnish accordion player known for being the “Rocker” of the accordion world. She started to play accordion when she was only 5 years old and she’s shown both versatility and virtuosity in her career.  American World Champion Cory Pesaturo calls her, the “Badass” of the accordion world.

In 2006 she won the Finnish Golden Accordion competition, a national Finnish competition, and her career began.  In the competition she played the song ”Dead to the World” from a very known Finnish metal band “Nightwish,” which attained much attention around the world. Mostly because of that performance, Battle Metal -band “Turisas” asked her to join the band. Netta was a official member in Turisas in 2007-2011 and got the chance to travel all around the whole world and play for crowds of up to 100,000 people!

In 2013 Netta decided to try her chances as a singer, so she attended to the Finnish Tango-competition and got straight to the finals, and was among the top six female singers.  In 2015 Netta was asked to join another Finnish folk metal band called “Ensiferum” for three years.

One of her biggest highlights was her World Championship in the Digital Accordion category of the Coupe Mondiale, which Matthias Matzke won in 2014, and Cory Pesaturo won in 2009. Since that, she has been one of the leading digital accordionists and has reached new crowds and young enthusiastic musicians.

After two years of basic musical education he began to play the accordion at the age of 6 at the municipal music school of Süßen.  From 2006 until now, he is a student at the Hohner Conservatory Trossingen in Germany.

In 2006 Matthias won the national final of the prestigious German competition “Deutscher Akkordeon Musikpreis” (German Accordion Music Prize) in the virtuoso entertainment music category.  In 2009 he won the 1st prize in the virtuoso entertainment music category of this competition, as well as the 1st prize in the classical music category and therefore was awarded the prize by the Prime Minister of his state.  Furthermore in 2007 and 2010 Matthias received the 1st prize in the national competition for classical music “Jugend musiziert” (Youths play music).  Also in 2008, Matthias won the second “Premio” during the 33rd international accordion festival “Città di Castelfidardo” in the junior competition for classical music.

2011 brought him a third place in the famous World Championship competition, the “Primus Ikaalinen”.  Also in this year he won the “Coupe Mondiale” World Championship in the category “Junior Virtuoso Entertainment”.

But his World Title came in 2013 when he won the Roland V-Accordion World Championship .  Later he won “Kid of the Year 2009” as overall winner of the “Kids2Keys” contest which is a competition for creativity and electronic instruments organized by the IFET association.  In 2014, he won a 2nd World Championship in the Digital Category of the Coupe Mondiale.

What Matthias loves about the accordion is the underestimated variety of this instrument and the possibility to use it for every possible style of music which often results in surprises.