Dan Popek

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Dan Popek

Dan Popek (* 23. March 1996 in Bad Friedrichshall ) is a German Jazz - Classical - Boogie Woogie - and blues - pianist .

Musical career

Dan Popek grew up in a musical family. He began playing the piano at the age of four. At the age of twelve he discovered his passion for jazz, blues and boogie-woogie and began to occupy himself with this style of music in addition to classical piano lessons. After graduating from high school, he decided to become a professional musician.

Popek gave his first concerts at the age of 13. Musically he was influenced by Joja Wendt , with whom he played in 2010 in the Alte Mälzerei in Mosbach. At the age of 15 he made a brief appearance at the concert of Axel Zwingenberger in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. A year later he appeared as a surprise guest of Axel Zwingenberger at the international boogie woogie festival "The Hamburg Boogie Woogie Connection" in the Hamburg factory . At the age of 16, he gave a concert in Langen with blues legend Abi Wallenstein .

Appearances at home and abroad followed, u. a. with Barbara Dennerlein , Vince Weber , Silvan Zingg , Cory Henry , Mojo Blues Band and the Spider Murphy Gang as well as invitations to international festivals. In 2013 Popek first appeared on SWR4 radio. Further stations were the festival at Kapfenburg Castle in front of 2,500 spectators, the Pinneberger Summerjazz Festival, the Haßfurter Bluesnacht, the International Brunner Blues & Boogie Woogie Festival in Austria, the Bavarian Jazzweekend, the International Boogie Woogie Festival Cambrai in France, and others. a. with Daryl Davis , the International Zingster Piano Days, a. a. with Martin Tingvall , the New Orleans Music Festival Bad Hersfeld and the Idstein Jazz Festival.

He was a guest of Lars Redlich on the Berlin show "Berlin in a Train" and appeared next to Tim Fischer and Johnny Armstrong . In 2016 he accepted the invitation to " Coffee or Tea " on SWR television . The following year he performed at the Jazz Fest Wien in Jazzland with Martin Pyrker and at the International Jazz Festival Prague in Reduta .

In 2018 he played a concert at the Cotton Club in Hamburg. He was also a member of the jury for the final piano competition by Casio / C. Bechstein in Hamburg. He then wrote his own composition for Casio Music.

In 2019 he performed at the International Dixieland Festival Dresden on the open-air stage Großer Garten in front of 3,000 spectators and received the festival's special prize. In the same year he was a guest at the Wetzlar Festival alongside Anke Helfrich .

Discography

  • 2013: 88 Keys and Me (Solo CD)
  • 2016: The Shout (Solo CD)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Popek's biography
  2. ^ Leonore Welzin: A talent and its consequences. Heilbronner Voice , October 18, 2010, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "Standing applause and six encores."
  3. ↑ Christine Weller: Young pianist takes on the great key magicians. Heilbronner Voice , October 20, 2010, accessed on October 10, 2018 : “A self-composed blues“ In the Water Castle ”. Dreamy, touching, beautiful. "
  4. ↑ Dan Popek on The Hamburg Boogie Woogie Connection, accessed October 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Leo Postl: The “Honky Tonk Train” got faster and faster. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 5, 2012, archived from the original on October 10, 2018 ; Retrieved on October 10, 2018 : “True fireworks.” Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  6. ↑ Dan Popek on SWR4, accessed October 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ulrike Langer: Charm and fascinating piano playing. Main-Post , October 26, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dan Popek on Boogie Online, accessed October 10, 2018.
  9. ↑ Dan Popek on Swing Oasis, accessed October 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ Dan Popek: The pianist who can play anything. Hersfelder Zeitung , April 23, 2018, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "Dan Popek is the pianist who can play anything and apparently effortlessly switch between genres."
  11. ↑ Dietlind Elle Rich: dancing on the keys. Westfälische Nachrichten , April 3, 2017, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "The gifted pianist was a masterly master of the grand piano."
  12. ^ Günter Vogel: Piano boogies sound like a masterpiece. Schwäbische Zeitung , May 15, 2017, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "A top-class jazz pianist."
  13. ^ Dan Popek on Berlin in a train, accessed on October 10, 2018.
  14. ↑ Dan Popek. Music from the southwest. SWR TV , April 8, 2016, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "Dan Popek presents a captivatingly atmospheric and original program of classical, jazz and world music."
  15. ^ Dan Popek on Jazzland, accessed October 10, 2018.
  16. ↑ Dan Popek on Reduta, accessed October 10, 2018.
  17. ↑ The acrobat at the piano. Hamburger Abendblatt , January 15, 2018, accessed on October 10, 2018 : "Popek is considered a great jazz talent."
  18. ^ Dan Popek on Casio Music, accessed October 10, 2018.
  19. ↑ Young and virtuoso: pianist Dan Popek. Dresden Latest News , May 14, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Dixieland Festival Dresden has almost 400,000 visitors. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 26, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Andreas E. Müller: Warm summer evening with hot music and boiling wings. Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung , July 25, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Popek, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz, classical, boogie-woogie and blues pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad friedrichshall