
JAKUB METELKA
PIANIST / TEACHER / COMPOSER
I am a Czech pianist, teacher, and composer, born in 1986 in what was then Czechoslovakia. My journey with the piano began at the age of six, and by fifteen, I was studying at The Prague Conservatoire under the direction of František Maxián.
In 2002, I had the honor of winning first prize as the absolute winner of the 37th International Music Competition Concertino Praga.
From 2007 to 2014, I taught piano at music schools in Prague, sharing my passion for music with students of all levels. Since 2015, I have been focusing primarily on composing my own piano music. That same year, I created two piano works: Illusions – 10 Piano Pieces and Three Studies for Piano. In 2016, I completed a collection of thirty piano miniatures titled Children’s Piano Book, which was later published in March 2019 as Modern Piano Studies by Bärenreiter publishing. In 2017, I wrote an album of ten piano exercises called Little Virtuoso, which was published in an extended edition with fifteen pieces in March 2021.
In September 2023, Bärenreiter published my piano album, The Secret Garden and recently we created our newest book „Puppet Theatre“.
Currently, I teach at a music school in Žirovnice, Czech Republic, where I continue to share my love for piano and composition with my students.

