Martin Reiter (musician)

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Martin Reiter (born August 16, 1978 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jazz musician ( piano , composition , arrangement ).

Live and act

Reiter, whose parents were amateur musicians, received an early musical education at the age of five; on the recorders - classical piano lessons followed. As a teenager he received lessons in jazz piano and saxophone. From 1996 he studied jazz piano at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz ; a year later he continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , then from 2001 at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag with Rob van Kreefeld (graduated in 2006 in Vienna).

Reiter founded a quartet with Jure Pukl , Klemens Marktl and the bassist Rodrigo Reijers. Together with Christian Wendt and Herbert Pirker , he formed a trio that performed at important jazz festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival , Umbria Jazz and North Sea Jazz Festival . In 2002, he toured North America with Simone Kopmajer's quartet , where he performed with Ira Sullivan , Turk Mauro and Richie Cole . Then Alex Deutsch brought him into the band of Matthieu Michel . In 2003 he spent several months in New York, where he took private lessons with Bill Charlap , Bruce Barth and Fred Hersch .

In 2004 Reiter released his debut album Chez es Saada , on which he presented himself as a soloist, but also in a quartet with Matthias Pichler , Matthieu Michel and Klemens Marktl as well as with the Feuerhaus Orchestra. This was followed by the album Rache für Mozart , on which Reiter improvised on the piano concerto in C major KV 503 . His album Alma (2007) was created in collaboration with Alegre Corrêa and Ana Paula da Silva . Together with guitarist Andi Tausch , he led the project The Flow , which released four albums.

In the coming years Reiter joined with doc.Tone , with his trio (acoustic Matthias Pichler and Peter Kronreif , electrical with Shayan Fathi and Jojo Lackner) Cafe Drechsler , Peter Herbert , Javier Pedras, Ines Reiger , Dusko Goykovich and Lee Harper on . He also presented the solo album Inventions & Impressions (2011). He also arranged and composed, for example for the Vienna Jazz Composer Ensemble.

In 2012 Reiter was appointed professor for jazz piano at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna . Under the name Jazz Ahead , he published his textbook for jazz piano at the Vienna Universal Edition in 2018 .

Prizes and awards

Reiter received the Austrian Young Lions Award in 2002 ; in the same year he received the New York scholarship of the Hans Koller Prize . In 2005 he received the Koller Prize as “Newcomer of the Year” and in 2008 for his album Alma as CD of the year.

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SURNAME Reiter, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician (piano, composition, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna