Helmut Jasbar

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Helmut Jasbar (born February 16, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian guitarist, composer, author and radio maker.

Life

Initially self-taught, electric guitarist and leader of a funk and fusion band, he began studying classical guitar at the age of 16 with Robert Wolff at the Vienna Conservatory, where he also received his pedagogical diploma. During this time he won the music competition “Musica Juventutis” several times. He then studied concert with Hubert Käppel at the University of Music in Cologne and graduated with honors in 1987. During his studies he dealt with composition and modern improvisation music. Shortly after finishing his academic years, he was able to establish himself internationally despite his skepticism towards the mainstream. When his debut CD was released, Die Zeit wrote: "A new talent is attracting attention."

Concert activity

Since 1987 Jasbar has been touring the United States, Canada, South Africa, Asia and Europe regularly as a guest at both jazz and classical festivals. TV and radio broadcasts of his concerts took place in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Austria. Some stations: The New York debut in the Avery Fisher Hall (1990), a concert at "Leo Brouwer's Guitar Festival" in Havana, Cuba (1992), his appearance at the "Cordoba Guitar Festival", Spain (1999), two concerts as Soloist with the RSO Vienna, the world premiere of his guitar solo "4Miles2Davis" by David Russel at the Julliard School of Music (New York).

Activity as a curator

Jasbar has worked as an author, presenter and program designer for the Austrian broadcasting company Austria 1 since 1999 . In 2003 he founded the “Pasticcio Prize”, a CD prize for interesting new Austrian publications, which has since served as a springboard for young artists. In the same year Jasbar began his work as a curator for the "Vienna Guitar Festival" at the ORF Radiokulturhaus, which has been organized since 2008 in cooperation with the Guitar Culture Association Vienna.

Activity as composer and author (selection)

  • It's Friday and God is not here - multimedia melodrama (premiere: April 7, 2009 Osterklang / Theater an der Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus)
  • In Hora Mortis - A Visit - Installation for string quintet, speaker and surround electronics (premiere: July 25, 2009 Ossiach, Carinthischer Sommer)
  • Dowland: Reloaded (2008) - Surround Installation / Tableguitars / Video (WP: 2009 Schömer Haus, Museum Essl)

Activity as a producer

  • Haydn: Trios - Uwe Grodd , Christopher Hinterhuber , Martin Rummel - NAXOS (2010)
  • Dowland Resident - Working Title
  • Bach: Suites for Violoncello BWV 1007-1012 - paladino music pmr 0004 (2010)
  • Andy Manndorff solo: Matter and Motion - Extraplatte
  • Andy Manndorff Trio: You break it, You own it - Universal

Discography

  • Birds of Vienna - Jasbar Consort - Universal / emarcy 986708-1 (2003)
  • The World is a Guitar - ORF-CD 320 (2001)
  • Wahnsinnige Sehnsucht - Jasbar Consort - Extraplatte EX 313-2 (1996)
  • Bach - Extra plate EX 236-2 (1993)
  • Helmut Jasbar Live at the Havana Guitar Festival - Extraplatte EX 213-2 (1992)

Catalog of works (selection)

Chamber music:

  • Chance - four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano (1989)
  • Piano Music '90 (1990)
  • Telephone cantata. Oh lord i'm calling you! - for 7 musicians and telephone (1995)
  • Piano Trio (1996)
  • no way only go - for 2 high voices, prepared piano and guitar (1997)
  • It's Friday and God Isn't Here - a multimedia melodrama (1998)
  • The silence in the world before Bach - for electric guitar, speaker and tape (2000)
  • Viennese traces - chamber music cycle for seven instruments (2002–2003)
  • Birds That Fly Through Rocks - Homage to Cecil Taylor for piano and electric guitar. For a pianist and two instruments to be operated simultaneously. (2005)
  • The Angels Are Late - For Claudius Tanski and Tabea Zimmermann (2007)

Guitar solo:

  • Three American Graffti - Edition Bosworth - boe 4906 (1987)
  • No, I Never Wrote A Suite - Moments Of Wanderlust (1992)
  • 4 Miles 2 Davis - Bosworth Edition - boe 4905
  • Dances In An Almost Classical Mode (1994)
  • Miss Slower's Changes (1997)
  • Colors in my garden for electric guitar (1998)
  • My Little Ghettoblaster Saved My Live for electric guitar (1998)
  • Etude for Lonely Guitarists for electric guitar (1998)
  • Three Roundelays - Helbling Verlag Innsbruck (2004)

Guitar ensembles:

  • Dances In An Almost Classical Mode for guitar quartet - Edition Margaux (Berlin) em 4019 (1997)

Voices about Helmut Jasbar

“In connection with the texts, he succeeded in creating an extremely gripping presentation of the last things. His musical language is rhythmically disturbing through sharp, angular sounds or sound surfaces with a dense structure and harmonies. " (Neues Volksblatt)

"The Jasbar Consort is sadly lustful, megalomaniacal and provincial, bringing Viennese music to a new level, far removed from the scrap of antiquity." (Jazz time)


"The Viennese composer Helmut Jasbar proves to be a fascinating discovery: He is full of ideas, peculiar, a bit bizarre also in his handling of found thematic material and that is precisely why he is so interesting." (Rondo Magazin)

"Jasbar manages to bring this instrument back into the living room, to deal with it playfully, the pieces are, so to speak, Goldberg variations of what was there ." (P-tv.at)


"Jasbar is a master." (The standard)

“The Austrian guitarist Helmut Jasbar is a real insider tip - not only for fans of the classical guitar. And: In principle, no music seems to be safe from this person ... " (acoustic guitar)

"... the aura of modernity at Helmut Jasbar's concert in the Palacio ... the audience, mostly young people, was enthusiastic." (Actualidad)

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personal data
SURNAME Jasbar, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian guitarist, composer, author and radio maker
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna