Vincent Pongracz

Vincent Pongracz (* 1985 in Vienna ) is an Austrian jazz musician ( clarinet , also saxophone , composition ).

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Pongracz, who first learned the recorder and then the clarinet from the age of twelve , became interested in hip-hop , then in jazz. He studied saxophone in Vienna ; his main instrument, however, remained the clarinet. From 2014 to 2019 he completed a master’s degree in Copenhagen.

In 2013 Pongracz was invited to perform in the Viennese jazz club Porgy & Bess ; to this end he founded his Synesthetic Octet with Doris Nicoletti, Clemens Salesny , Richard Köster, Alois Eberl, Peter Rom , Manuel Mayr, Lukas König and the singer / rapper Renee Benson. In 2015, both the Synesthetic Octet's debut album (“Rastlos”) and the EP “Our Device Is Korea” by his quartet of the same name (with Simon Raab, Beate Wiesinger and Sergey Balashov) were released. Rastlos Remixed followed in 2016, and the EP In the Meanwhile Shoot Me a Movie with the octet in 2017 . Works by Pongracz were performed by the Vorarlberg Jazz Orchestra in 2019 . He also worked with musicians such as Klaus Dickbauer , Alegre Corrêa , Herbert Pirker , Renald Deppe, Daniel Riegler, Fabian Rucker, Raphael Preuschl and Michael Prowaznik. In 2020, the album Synesthetic4: Pickedem , which he released with Peter Rom, Manuel Mayr and Andreas Lettner, made it onto the quarterly best list of the German Record Critics' Prize .

In 2013 Pongracz received the start-up grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture ; the following year he was the winner of the SKE Publicity Prize.

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personal data
SURNAME	Pongracz, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian jazz musician (clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Synesthetic Octet's debut album (Oe 1)

[2] Porgy & Bess stage band 2013: Vincent Pongracz "Synesthetic Octet"

[3] Meeting (Jazzhalo)

[4] Meeting (MICA)

[5] Best list2 / 2020