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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005

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What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source. The originals are protected by copyright and kept in the archive; we provide them to researchers and the press on request.

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  1. 17 September 2010 · Report · DE

    mica music austria: „STUDIO FAN, das Abonnementprogramm des Ensembles Studio Dan“

    Presentation of the subscription series of the Viennese ensemble Studio Dan with a short biography of its leader Daniel Riegler. For 2008 it lists his leadership of the Porgy & Bess (Vienna jazz club) stage band and the Harry Pepl Prize 2008.

  2. 25 November 2013 · Report · DE

    mica music austria: „Clemens Salesny erhält den Harry Pepl Preis“

    News item on the fourth presentation of the Harry Pepl Prize at the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz: the encouragement prize went in 2013 to the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny. The article briefly introduces Salesny and his projects.

    This year the Harry Pepl Prize was awarded for the fourth time as part of the “Austrian Soundcheck” in Graz.

  3. 26 March 2014 · Report · DE

    Falter 13/2014 (arts section): „Erinnerungen an Werner Pirchner, den Frank Zappa aus Hall in Tirol“

    Klaus Nüchtern

    Review of the film “D.U.D.A.!” by Werner Ludin about Werner Pirchner. The text mentions Pirchner’s collaboration with the guitarist Harry Pepl, through which he became an internationally sought-after jazz virtuoso; the focus is on Pirchner.

    Through his collaboration with the guitarist Harry Pepl he rose to become an internationally sought-after jazz virtuoso

  4. 31 August 2015 · Report · DE

    Die Presse (Online): „Saalfelden: Schmerz an der Heimat, Störung der Jazz-Idylle“

    Samir H. Köck

    Festival report from Jazzfest Saalfelden 2015 (major jazz festival in the Salzburg region). The festival recalled Werner Pirchner’s 75th birthday and also commemorated the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005.

    also commemorated the guitarist Harry Pepl, who died in 2005

  5. 18 November 2015 · Report · DE

    Falter 47/2015 (Rubrik Steiermark): „Steiermark kurz“

    Short news from Styria. One item reports that the Harry Pepl Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, went for the first time to a female musician at the Austria Soundcheck (festival in Graz), the composer and saxophonist Viola Falb.

    the Harry Pepl Prize to the composer and saxophonist Viola Falb

  6. 24 December 2015 · Report · DE

    NÖN (Online, Hollabrunn): „Viola Falb, die erste Frau im Jazz“

    Report on the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb from the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria: at the opening of this year's Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz, Austria, she received the fifth Harry Pepl Prize. Only the beginning of the article is freely available online.

    Viola Falb, the district's exceptional artist, received the 5th Harry Pepl Prize in Graz.

  7. 12 May 2016 · Report · DE

    Der Standard (Online): „Inntöne-Festival: Session mit der Historie“

    Preview of the Inntöne festival (jazz festival in Diersbach, Upper Austria). According to the subtitle, Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger interpret music by Harry Pepl. The full text was not accessible.

    Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger interpret Harry Pepl

  8. 16 May 2016 · Report · DE

    Die Presse (Online): „Resch, renitent: Der Sound des Sauwalds“

    Samir H. Köck

    Report on the 30th anniversary of the Inntöne festival in Diersbach. It also describes the performance of the homage to Harry Pepl, in which fragments of Pepl’s recordings were played in and which not everyone liked.

    an artistic high-wire act in which fragments of Pepl’s recordings were also played in

  9. 17 May 2016 · Report · DE

    Der Standard (Online): „Inntöne: Expressive Gelassenheit“ (Al Foster und das Harry-Pepl-Projekt)

    Festival report from the Inntöne in Diersbach. Only the teaser about the Al Foster Quartet is visible; the subtitle names the Harry Pepl project as a further item on the programme. The full text was not accessible.

    Al Foster and the Harry Pepl project

  10. 8 April 2017 · Report · DE

    Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Pirchner und Pepl“ (Muthspiel Trio spielt „Against the Wind“)

    Haide Tenner (Gesprächspartnerin)

    Item on the CD “Against the Wind”, on which the Christian Muthspiel Trio plays works by Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner. In conversation with Haide Tenner on the “Klassik-Treffpunkt”, Muthspiel tells how the CD came about out of the commemoration of Pirchner and the programme “Pepl/Pirchner”.

    The musicians play works by the composers Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner, who died early.

  11. 20 September 2017 · Report · DE

    Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Der Musiker Werner Pirchner“

    Short portrait of Werner Pirchner (13 February 1940 to 10 August 2001) as a jazz musician and composer. It lists the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio, founded in 1975, with its appearances until the mid-1980s, among others in Velden, Montreux and Saalfelden; the focus is on Pirchner.

    With the guitarist Harry Pepl he founded the Pirchner-Pepl-JazzZwio in 1975

  12. 10 October 2017 · Report · DE

    Ö1 (oe1.orf.at, article): „Der Gratwanderer Werner Pirchner“

    Article on Werner Pirchner for the tenth anniversary of his death, shown on the page with the date 10 October 2017 but referring in the text to 10 August 2011. It names the Jazz-Zwio with Harry Pepl as a stage that also made Pirchner known in the international jazz scene; the focus is on Pirchner.

    together with Harry Pepl in the legendary JazzZwio