Trio Accanto is a contemporary piano trio formed of Marcus Weiss (saxophone), Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Christian Dierstein (percussion). It is based in Freiburg, Germany.

Trio Accanto was formed as the result of a discussion between Marcus Weiss and Yukiko Sugawara. Christian Dierstein was invited to be the percussionist, and the first official concert of the Trio was at Donaueschingen in 1994. Since 2013 Nicolas Hodges has been the pianist, having succeeded Yukiko Sugawara who retired from the group after their performance of Aureliano Cattaneo's trio-concerto Blut with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Freiburg under François-Xavier Roth at Donaueschingen in 2012.
Although the individual members are based in Basel, Stuttgart and Freiburg, the trio rehearses solely in Freiburg, which it considers its home.
In addition to concerts, Trio Accanto has coached chamber music at Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, and IMPULS Academy, Graz.

The scoring of saxophone, piano and percussion is common in jazz but uncommon in classical music. Trio Accanto has steadily built a repertoire of about 100 works for this scoring (including a handful of concertos). Some composers who have written from Trio Accanto include Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Aldo Clementi, Stefano Gervasoni, Vinko Globokar, Erhard Grosskopf, Toshio Hosokawa, Thomas Kessler, Marina Khorkova, Jo Kondo, Helmut Lachenmann, Brice Pauset, Stefan Prins, Rolf Riehm, Wolfgang Rihm, Johannes Schöllhorn, Martin Schüttler, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Mauricio Sotelo. For details of the repertoire Trio Accanto has largely created, see List of compositions for saxophone, piano and percussion.
Composers currently writing for Trio Accanto include Michael Finnissy, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Evan Johnson, Misato Mochizuki, Marco Momi, and Christian Wolff.
Trio Accanto plays exclusively works for the three instruments together. The group's members do not play solos or duos in trio concerts. In the past there have been projects with voice, including works by Bernhard Lang and Dieter Schnebel. These are however no longer in the active repertoire of the Trio.
Trio Accanto has been very active in education, promoting tours of several different children's programmes, including specially written works by Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Smolka, Thomas Kessler and others.

In common with many German contemporary music ensembles, Trio Accanto has over the years made many studio recordings of new works. Several of these were collected onto two CDs, on Assai (2003, featuring works by Mauricio Sotelo, Stefano Gervasoni, Toshio Hosokawa and Brice Pauset) and on Zeitklang (2009, featuring works by Jörg Birkenkötter, Erhard Großkopf, Manuel Hidalgo, Jo Kondo and Bernfried Pröve). The trio has released many other individual performances on other CDs.
Coinciding with Nicolas Hodges joining the trio, Trio Accanto have begun recording the highlights of its repertoire for Wergo, in purpose-made studio recordings. The first of these, Funambules, was released in December 2016 and featured music by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins, all pieces commissioned by the trio in the first year of Hodges' membership. The second, Songs and Poems, is in preparation and features music by Aldo Clementi, Andreas Dohmen, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans Thomalla and Walter Zimmermann, all of which (apart from Dohmen) are major works from the Trio's "old repertoire" which were not recorded by the Trio in earlier decades. With Hodges, the Trio has also released a recording of a work by Marina Khorkova.

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