David Helbock | |
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 David Helbock | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Helbock |
| Born | 28 January 1984 Koblach, Austria |
| Genres | Jazz, Modern Jazz, Jazz fusion |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Keyboards |
| Labels | ACT Music, Traumton Records |
| Website | davidhelbock |
David Helbock (born 28 January 1984 in Koblach) is an Austrian jazz musician. [1]
Helbock began playing piano at the age of six. After several years of lessons at the music school Feldkirch and at the jazz seminar Dornbirn, he switched to the music high school in Feldkirch in 1998. During school he began to study piano with Ferenc Bognar at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory, where he completed his classical concert diploma in 2005.
Since 2000, Helbock has also taken lessons with the New York jazz pianist Peter Madsen, with whom he also played in his ensemble CIA (Collective of Improvising Artists) and more recently formed the Austrian Syndicate.
With his different musical projects, like the "David Helbock Trio", "David Helbock's Random/Control" [2] and also as a solo artist, Helbock toured all over the planet. [3] [4] [5]
In 2012, Helbock released Purple, an album on which he only covers 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, released by ECM Records. [6] He also plays on Mantler's albums Comment c'est (2017) and Coda (2021).
Since 2010 till 2015 Helbock's CDs as a leader were published on the label Traumton [7] in Berlin. Since 2016 Helbock is an exclusive artist with the record company ACT Music from Munich. Up to date Helbock released six albums on ACT - "Into the Mystic" (2016 with the David Helbock Trio), "Tour d´Horizon" (2018 with Random/Control), "Playing John Williams" (2019 - Solopiano), "The New Cool" (2021 with Arne Jansen & Sebastian Studnitzky), "Playground" (2022 with french singer Camille Bertault) and "Austrian Syndicate" (2023 with his former teacher Peter Madsen and an Austrian rhythmsection dedicated to Joe Zawinul and featuring guest appearances of Dhafer Youssef, Lakecia Benjamin, Maria João (singer), Fred Wesley & Alex Acuña )
In 2010 he released his "Personal Realbook", a compositional project, where he wrote one tune every day for a whole year, inspired by the Brazilian jazz legend Hermeto Pascoal. [8] Hermeto also contributed a song to Helbock's Album "Think of Two" in 2014.
Helbock is a prizewinner at the world-biggest Jazzpianosolo Competition in Montreux 2007 and 2010 and also won the audience prize. [9] In 2011 he was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award of the government of Austria. [10]
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