Born in Berlin and currently living in Paris, Stephan Schellin is a piano and fender rhodes player, who also performs with keyboards and accordion. He has played professionally in several bands for the last eight years.
Highlights include live performances and airtime on German television and radio (for various channels and programmes such as Rockpalast, Kinderkanal, FAB and Giga TV, Sat1 and VIVA Plus, Fritz, Radio 1 (Berlin), Deltaradio (Hamburg), Eins LIVE (Cologne), SWR (Stuttgart), MDR Jump (Leipzig) to name a few). Supporting act for Neil Young, Roger Chapman, Mitch Ryder and others.
In the past five years he has played approximately 350 live gigs across Germany - mainly with Mother’s Little Helpers, but also with Kurt Krömer, Valentine and Max Koffler. Further shows with various funk, soul, jazz and pop/rock formations have taken place within Berlin. He has released two albums and several singles with Mother’s Little Helpers, one album with Max Koffler.
At the end of 2006 he composed the music to the film “Freiraum“ (free space), a tribute to the sculptor, painter and graphic designer Volker Bartsch. A corresponding exhibition and presentation of the film are planned to open in Frankfurt/Main in the autumn of 2008.
During 2006 he also broadened his work to include musical support for improv theatres. His (band-) workshops for adolescents proved themselves to be successful at the Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures, an annual carnival and procession) in Berlin in 2006 - the Streetbeat-project, a group he was working with at the time, won the youth prize!
He also acts as an advisor for “Kompetenznachweis Kultur†(“Certificate of cultural competenceâ€), a project of the federal agency for cultural education of children and adolescents (Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung) which enables teenagers to receive a certificate attesting their “soft skillsâ€, by being active in youth bands for example.