Patrick Bebelaar

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Patrick Bebelaar (2004)

Patrick Josef Bebelaar (born March 6, 1971 in Trier ) is a German musician and composer . He has made a name for himself as an "original pianist between jazz and classical music."

Live and act

Bebelaar received piano lessons from Georg Ruby and Richie Beirach and, after graduating from high school, studied from 1993 at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts with Paul Schwarz . Like Frank Kroll and Bernd Settelmayer, he is a member of the Limes X group . For many years he has worked with musicians such as Michel Godard , Herbert Joos , Joe Fonda , Günter Sommer , Johannes Enders , Wolfgang Puschnig , Bodek Janke and Prakash Maharaj, Vikash Maharaj, Hakim Ludin , Fried Dähn , Ulrich Süße and Vincent Klink . He made appearances in Europe , South Africa , North America and India .

His music and compositions are permeated by free jazz and world jazz . Folkloric themes play just as much a role as free improvisation . His work Pantheon builds on the B minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed on behalf of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart (2002/2005/2008), the German Literature Archive , the city of Esslingen am Neckar and other clients.

Since 2000 he has been working on a voluntary basis in the townships of South Africa , where he teaches in various projects and makes music with young people. He also teaches at the universities of Kwazulu Natal and Cape Town . As part of the soccer World Cup 2010 , Bebelaar performed with colleagues in South Africa. In Germany he teaches from 2006 to 2012 with a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. Since the summer semester 2013, Bebelaar has been a lecturer for jazz / pop at the University of Church Music in Tübingen . Since February 2014 he has also held the office of Vice-Rector. In 2018 he was appointed professor there.

Reviews

The press describes his game as follows:

  • “... He condenses his playing into frenetic attacks, into complex nested rhythms and sharply pointed harmonies. The late Romantic rampant virtuoso vocabulary of a Skriabin and Rachmaninoff is continued and intensified in Bebelaar's art at the height of the unleashed intoxication. "
  • "... Avant-garde playing techniques and respectful continuation of tradition."

Prizes, awards and grants

Bebelaar has received various grants from the University of Natal, Durban (1995/96), the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (1996) and the Hermann Haake Foundation (1996). In 2000, Bebelaar was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Jazz Prize. In 2003 he received the “Special Award” from the Kingdom of Kwazulu Natal for his music education work. The South African Association for Jazz Education recognized him in 2005 for his "Outstanding Service to Jazz Education". In 2008 he was artist in residence at the University of Cape Town (2008). The CD Three Seasons (HGBS 2014 with Günter “Baby” Sommer and Michel Godard) was voted “Album of the Year 2014” by The New York City Jazz Record . His CD "Stupor Mundi" (dml-records 2015 with Michel Godard, Vincent Klink, Gavino Murgia and Carlo Rizzo) was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize (best list 1/2015, Grenzgang).

Discographic notes

  • Raga (dml-records, 1996, with Frank Kroll, Prakash Maharaj, Subhash Maharaj, Vikash Maharaj)
  • Never Thought It Could Happen (dml-records, 1999, with Frank Kroll, Willi Witte, Henrik Mumm)
  • Passion (dml-records, 2000, with Herbert Joos, Bernd Settelmayer, Frank Kroll, Fried Dähn, Jo Ambros , Günter Lenz )
  • You Never Lose an Island (dml-records, 2002, with Michel Godard, Herbert Joos, Frank Kroll)
  • Point of View (dml-records, 2003, with Frank Kroll, Michel Godard, Prakash Maharaj, Subhash Maharaj, Vikash Maharaj)
  • The Beauty of Darkness (dml-records, 2005, with Herbert Joos)
  • Pantheon (dml-records, 2007, with Fried Dähn, Michel Godard, Herbert Joos, Frank Kroll, Carlo Rizzo )
  • Live at the Baxter (Captown Sound, South Africa, 2009, with Mike Rossi, Ulrich Süße)
  • Gegenwelten - Abgesang (dml-records, 2009, with Michel Godard , Herbert Joos, Frank Kroll, Gavino Murgia )
  • The Four O'Clock Session (dml-records, 2009, with Joe Fonda , Mike Rabinowitz)
  • Between Shadow and Light ( Double Moon Records 2012, with Joe Fonda and Herbert Joos)
  • Book of Family Affairs (HGBS 2013, with Günter Lenz and Herbert Joos)
  • Studio concert (new sound 2014, with Pierre Favre Günter Lenz and Frank Kroll)
  • Three Seasons (HGBS 2014, with Günter "Baby" Sommer and Michel Godard)
  • Stupor Mundi (dml-records 2014, with Michel Godard, Gavino Murgia, Carlo Rizzo and Vincent Klink)
  • High above the clouds (Art Beat, Russia 2014, with Vladimir Goloukov)
  • Reflection In Your Eyes (neuklang 2015, with Pierre Favre, Günter Lenz and Frank Kroll)
  • Touch (dml-records 2017, with Michel Godard, Ulrich Süße and Mike Rossi)
  • Tartaros (dml-records 2019, with Christoph Beck , Bodek Janke )
  • Every Time We Say Goodbye (neuklang 2020, with Herbert Joos )

Lexical entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Wölfer Jazz in Germany , p. 7 f.
  2. ^ Rainer Köhl, Die Rheinpfalz , April 26, 2001
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Bebelaar, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bebelaar, Patrick Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH trier