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David Helbock

Two rewards and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazzfestival Montreux, a lot of enthusiastic/international reviews for his CDs and the most important prize in Austria 2011 - the "Outstanding Artist Award" - David Helbock, the pianoplayer coming from a small little village in Austria called Koblach, is with no doubt, has already had a great international musical career.

Helbock is not only a great pianist, he is also a very individual thinker, who is investing not only a lot of dexterity but also quite an amount of brain activity to his projects.

David Helbock, born on the 28th of january 1984, began playing the piano at the age of six. He studied at the Feldkirch Conservatory with Prof. Ferenc Bognar, where he finished 2005 with an "excellent" degree in performance and since 2000 he took lessons with the New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen, who became his teacher, mentor and friend.

David Helbock played Tours and Recordings with different projects in countries like the USA, Australia, Mexico, Russia, Kasachstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia, Korea, Philippines, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenia, Senegal, Marokko, Iran, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and all over Europe.

Since the start of his musical career David Helbock is also very active as a composer. One of his works is among others a big „One-Year compositional project“ where he wrote a new piece every day for a whole year. (In April 2010 his "Personal Realbook" with over 600 pages of music was released)

Awards

several 1st Prize Winner - Youthcompetition "Prima la Musica" 2001 "Bösendorfer-Scholarship" Winner 2002 Talent-Competition Winner with the band "Tat-twam-asi" 2006 Winner of the international Competition "New Generation" in Straubing (GER) 2006 CD Release in the Series Jazzthing Next Generation with the HDV Trio 2007 Podiumsprize Liechtenstein 2007 Prizewinner at the world biggest Jazz-piano-solo competition in Montreux 2010 Prizewinner at the same competition and in addition the "Audienceprize" 2011 Outstanding Artist Award of Austria 2014 Invitation to the BMW-World Jazzaward 2015 IBK Prize (International Bodensee Conference) 2018 State-Scholarship for Composition from Austria


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Michael Mantler: Coda - Orchestra Suites

Read "Coda - Orchestra Suites" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Non è mai stato semplice inquadrare l'opera del trombettista e compositore austriaco Michael Mantler. Trasferitosi negli Stati Uniti nel 1960, si è ritrovato coinvolto nel jazz d'avanguardia degli anni '60 a fianco di musicisti come Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp e Roswell Rudd nel Jazz Composers Guild di cui è cofondatore. Da allora si è sempre dedicato alla realizzazione di uno sbocco per le composizioni di jazz orchestrale (sue e di altri), creando a questo scopo la JCOA (Jazz Composer's Orchestra ...

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David Helbock: Playing John Williams

Read "Playing John Williams" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Eclectic Austrian jazz pianist/composer David Helbock has devoted whole albums to other composers in the past, notably Prince on his solo piano album Purple (Traumton Records, 2012) and several influential modern jazz pianists on the album Tour d'Horizon (ACT, 2018) with his band David Helbock's Random/Control. Arrangements of multiple Oscar-and Grammy-winning American film composer John Williams' music appeared on the David Helbock Trio album Into The Mystic (ACT, 2016). But with Playing John Williams Helbock devotes this entire solo piano ...

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David Helbock: Inside & Outside the Piano

Read "David Helbock: Inside & Outside the Piano" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Austrian pianist/composer David Helbock was born in 1984, and began playing the piano at the age of six. He studied at the Feldkirch Conservatory with Prof. Ferenc Bognar, where he finished in 2005 with an “excellent" degree in performance and since 2000 took lessons with the New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen, who became his teacher, mentor and friend. Awards include the audience prize at the world's biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazzfestival Montreux, and the most important prize in ...

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David Helbock's Random / Control: Think Of Two

Read "Think Of Two" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Inferring that his Germany-based trio is a multitasking machine would be an understatement. With a fleet of instruments at their disposal, the compositions are largely sinuous, vastly complex, and highly coordinated. The musicians toggle between instruments to alter the pitch, accent the rhythms or whirl through complex unison choruses while adding wit and whimsy into the grand schema. Pianist David Helbock provides one composition, yet the program is fabricated around works by Thelonious Monk and legendary Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal. ...

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7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest 2018 Edition: Winners Announced!

7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest 2018 Edition: Winners Announced!

Source: Valerio Pappi

The 7 Virtual Jazz Club is proud to announce the winners of the 2018 edition of the contest. The international jury, made of jazz experts, composed their ranks. Pros & Amateurs’ Category The jury prize for the best musician (€ 2,000 plus a live concert in the Jazz Club Ferrara- Italy) has been assigned to the Austrian group David Helbock’s Random Control (David Helbock, piano, percussion; Johannes Bär, tuba, percussion; Andreas Broger, saxophone) which presented the song “Spain". Second Prize: ...

"An impeccable pianist with a clear, crisp touch.” - Jazzwise (GB)

“Accomplished, melodic playing” - The London Times (GB)

“Simply indescribable.” - Jazz thing (DE)

“Exciting and full of surprises and delights.” - Les Inrocks (FR)

"...I think this musician with his „pianocap“ is one of the most exciting players of the young european jazz scene. The listener experiences something new when David Helbock plays. And it ́s never „top-heavy“ music – it ́s music that thrills the body and the mind..." (Roland Spiegel - Bavarian Radio - DE)

...When David Helbock’s Random Control made Think of Two that album was so angularly brilliant that it seemed hard to imagine how Mr

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