Press on Voja Brković
What was written and broadcast about Harry Pepl and Voja Brković: reviews, portraits, interviews and obituaries, with summary and source.
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5 September 1979 · Programme booklet · HU
Programmheft der VIII. Debrecener Jazztage (Debreceni Dzsessznapok) 1979: Programmheft der VIII. Debrecener Jazztage new
Programme booklet of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Hungary), published by the organiser, Hungarian Radio, together with the Kölcsey Ferenc cultural centre, for the concerts from Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 September 1979. For Friday, 7 September, at midnight in the Bartók Hall, it presents the guitar duo Harry Pepl and Voja Brkovity (Voja Brković) and calls Pepl the most renowned Austrian guitarist of modern jazz. The short biography in the booklet mentions Erich Kleinschuster’s sextet, the ORF Big Band (the big band of ORF, Austria’s public broadcaster) and workshop line-ups with Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Art Farmer and John Surman; it probably goes back to the same information supplied by Pepl himself as the 1979 programme booklet of Saalfelden, Austria. The bassist Csaba Fazekas published the scan in 2024 on the Hungarian jazz portal JazzMa.
Harry Pepl is the most renowned Austrian guitarist playing modern jazz.
Short biography in the programme booklet of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Hungary), September 1979, a text by the organiser without an author; Pepl played there at midnight on Friday, 7 September, in a guitar duo with Voja Brković
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7 September 1979 · Other · HU
Hajdú-Bihari Napló (Tageszeitung des Komitats Hajdú-Bihar, Debrecen, Hungary): Nr. 209: „Debreceni dzsessznapok. Mai program“ (Tagesprogramm der Debrecener Jazztage)
On Friday, 7 September 1979, the Debrecen daily newspaper announces the day’s programme of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days in Hungary: at midnight the “Austrian-Yugoslav guitar duo” Harry Pepl and Voja Brkvic plays in the Bartók Hall, followed by the pianist Gusztáv Csík (p. 2). The programme of the Kölcsey Ferenc cultural centre on p. 8 lists the same evening with the spelling “Voja Brkovity” and an admission price of 30 forints.
In the Bartók Hall at midnight the Austrian-Yugoslav guitar duo Harry Pepl and Voja Brkvic gives a concert, followed by Gusztáv Csík.
Day programme of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Hungary) in the Debrecen daily “Hajdú-Bihari Napló” of Friday, 7 September 1979; the duo played at midnight, that is, in the night to Saturday
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7 September 1979 · Radio · HU
Magyar Rádió, Debreceni Jazznapok (live recording, im Archiv der MTVA): „A Harry Pepl-Voja Brkovity gitárduó játszik“ (Rundfunkmitschnitt der Debrecener Jazztage) new
At the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days in Debrecen, Hungary, Magyar Rádió, the Hungarian public broadcaster, recorded the concert by the guitar duo Harry Pepl and Voja Brković, which took place at midnight on Friday, 7 September 1979, in the Bartók Hall. The recording, about 53 minutes long, is held under the shelf mark A-258082/02/01/01/01 in the archive of MTVA, the Hungarian media fund that runs the public broadcasters. The archive’s data sheet spells the duo partner’s name “Voja Brkovity” and gives neither date nor place; both are documented by the Debrecen daily “Hajdú-Bihari Napló”. The recording is not publicly accessible; the estate holds an archive copy for private use only.
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16 September 1979 · Review · HU
Hajdú-Bihari Napló (Tageszeitung des Komitats Hajdú-Bihar, Debrecen, Hungary): Nr. 217: „Fesztivál öt napig. Összefoglaló a debreceni dzsessznapokról“
Gábor Turi
Review of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days 1979 (“Festival for five days”): four venues, ten concerts, three jam sessions, more than twenty ensembles and 7,000 visitors, organised by the radio together with the Kölcsey Ferenc cultural centre. Turi divides the performers into three groups according to their performance and places the guitar duo Pepl and Brkovity in the top group, alongside Ganelin, Mirrors, Gusztáv Csík, the duo Viklický and Andršt and Jasper van ’t Hof; he highlights the duo’s virtuoso technique and perfect interplay.
the virtuoso technique and perfect interplay of the guitar duo Pepl and Brkovity came as a surprise
Gábor Turi in his review of the 8th Debrecen Jazz Days (Hungary) in September 1979, at which Pepl played at midnight in a duo with the Yugoslav guitarist Voja Brković; Turi ranks the duo among the top group of the festival