Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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2010
Harry Pepl Prize for Stefan Heckel
Graz
At the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) run by the promoter gamsbART in Graz, Austria, the Styrian pianist and accordionist Stefan Heckel receives the Harry Pepl Prize. In 2024 Heckel completed a dissertation on Pepl's late work at the mdw (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna).
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22 November 2013
Harry Pepl Prize for Clemens Salesny
Graz
On Friday 22 November 2013 the alto saxophonist Clemens Salesny receives the Harry Pepl Prize at the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz, Austria; according to Ö1 (the ORF's cultural radio channel) and mica (Austria's music information centre) it is already the fourth presentation. The evening at the Dom im Berg is billed as “Super Sax”; Salesny plays there in a trio with Martin Bayer and Peter Primus Frosch. In 2015 he records with both of them and Agnes Heginger the double CD for the tenth anniversary of Pepl's death, playing along to his original tracks.
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November 2015
Harry Pepl Prize for Viola Falb
Graz
At the opening of the Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in Graz, Austria, the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, the first woman to do so. The Falter reports the award on 18 November 2015 and names prize money of 5,000 euros; mica (Austria's music information centre) and Wikipedia date the prize to 2016. No later presentation is documented; Stefan Heckel dates the series up to 2015.
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27 October 2017
Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to Pepl in Passau
Passau
The Passauer Neue Presse reported on Friday 27 October 2017 that the Gerald Gradwohl Group pays tribute to the late Viennese jazz guitarist, whom Gradwohl admires and from whom he has learned.
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