David Helbock
David Helbock (born January 28, 1984 in Koblach , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian jazz musician , pianist and composer .
Live and act
Helbock started playing the piano at the age of six . After a few years of teaching at the Feldkirch Music School with Nora Calvo Smith and at the Dornbirn Jazz Seminar with Paul Winter, he moved to the Feldkirch High School in 1998, where he graduated with distinction in 2003 . During his school days, he began to study piano with Ferenc Bognar at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory , where he completed his classical concert diploma with distinction in 2005.
Since 2000, Helbock took additional lessons from New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen , with whom he also played in the band Mistura and in its ensemble CIA (Collective of Improvising Artists).
Helbock has also been active as a composer since the beginning of his musical career. His works include a large “annual composition project” in which Helbock wrote a new piece every day for a year - in 2010 this work was published as My Personal Realbook with over 600 pages of music.
In 2006 he released the CD Celebrating Modern Genius with the Helbock-Dietrich-Vogel Trio (HDV Trio for short) on the jazz label Double Moon Records . In his trio Random / Control with brass player Johannes Bär and woodwind player Andreas Broger, “three wisps of multiple surprises” are on stage. The three multi-instrumentalists from Vorarlberg were present at Jazzahead 2015 as part of the “European Jazz Meeting” . With his trio with the Viennese musicians Raphael Preuschl on bass ukulele and Herbert Pirker or (since 2016) Reinhold Schmölzer on drums, Helbock toured the whole world and played at jazz festivals on all continents.
In 2012 Helbock released an album with Purple on which he only covered songs by Prince , such as 1999 , Alphabet St. , Kiss and Purple Rain . In 2014 Helbock appeared as a soloist on Michael Mantler's CD The Jazzcomposers Orchestra - Update , which was released on ECM Records , and he can also be heard on Mantler's album Comment c'est (2017).
Helbock's albums as leader were released from 2010 to Aural Colors (2015) on Traumton Records . Helbock has been an exclusive artist at the Munich record label ACT Music since mid-2016 . The first album on ACT with the David Helbock Trio was called Into the Mystic (2016), the second album with Helbock's Ensemble Random / Control is called Tour d´Horizon - From Brubeck to Zawinul (2018) and in 2019 it was released Playing John Williams, a solo piano album.
Prizes and awards
- In 2007 and 2010 Helbock was second prize winner at the world's largest jazz piano solo competition in Montreux and also won the audience award.
- In 2011 he was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award for Music by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture .
- With the HDV Trio he also won the international New Generation 06 competition in Straubing , where they competed among more than 60 European bands.
Discographic notes
- 2003: Emotions (solo piano)
- 2004: Transformation (David Helbock Trio)
- 2006: Celebrating Modern Genius (HDV Trio)
- 2007: Time (solo piano)
- 2008: Suite of Philosophical Sounds - SUN RA (with Peter Madsen's CIA)
- 2008: All In (HDV Trio)
- 2010: Random / Control
- 2011: Diagonal (Frick / Helbock Duo)
- 2012: Purple (solo piano)
- 2014: Think of Two (Random / Control)
- 2014: What's next? I do not know! (Raab / Helbock Duo)
- 2015: Aural Colors (David Helbock Trio)
- 2015: Mistura (David Helbock / Peter Madsen Quartet)
- 2016: Into the Mystic (David Helbock Trio)
- 2018: Tour d´Horizon (Random / Control)
- 2019: Playing John Williams (solo piano)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazztime Playlist Wednesday, October 7, 2009 ( memento of October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), September 16, 2011, BR-Klassik
- ↑ David Helbock Random / Control , Jazzahead 2015, accessed April 25, 2015
- ↑ Michael Mantler . ecmreviews. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
- ^ Spiegel Online . mirror online. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
- ^ ACT Music . actmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helbock, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musician (piano, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblach , Vorarlberg, Austria |