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About David Helbock
Two rewards and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the Jazzfestival Montreux, a lot of enthusiastic/international reviews for his CDs and the most important prize in Austria 2011 - the "Outstanding Artist Award" - David Helbock, the pianoplayer coming from a small little village in Austria called Koblach, is with no doubt, on his way up to a great international musical career. Helbock is not only a great pianist, he is also a very individual thinker, who is investing not only a lot of dexterity but also quite an amount of brain activity to his projects.
David Helbock, born on the 28th of january 1984, began playing the piano at the age of six. He studied at the Feldkirch Conservatory with Prof. Ferenc Bognar, where he finished 2005 with an "excellent" degree in performance and since 2000 he has been taking lessons with the New York City jazz pianist Peter Madsen, who became his teacher, mentor and friend.
David Helbock played tours and recorded with different projects in many countries including the USA, Australia, Mexico, Russia, Kasachstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenia, Senegal, Marokko, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Brazil, Argentinia, Chile and all over Europe.
Since the start of his musical career David Helbock has also been very active as a composer. One of his seminal works is a large „One-Year Compositional Project“ where he wrote a new piece every day for a whole year. (In April 2010 his "Personal Realbook" with over 600 pages of music was released.)
David has performed at prestigious festivals such as Traumzeit Duisburg, Jazzwochen Burghausen, Jazzfestival Münster, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Jazz d´or Strasbourg, Jazzfestival Montreux, Jazzfestival St.Louis, Java Jazzfestival, Providencia Jazzfestvial Chile, Eurojazzfestival Mexiko, Kuala Lumpur Jazzfestival, Melbourne Jazzfestival and many more. His trio brings an exciting, vigorous and surprisingly accesible music to the table and with Raphael Preuschl´s bass ukulele it even obtains a touch of exotica.
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