Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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1990s
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1991
Lower Austrian Culture Prize for Music
Lower Austria
In 1991 Pepl received the Recognition Prize of the state of Lower Austria in the music category (the state's culture prize). The tribute text from the culture prize brochure is now in the state's database of prizewinners.
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1998
2000s
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18 November 2006
First Harry Pepl Prize awarded in Graz
Graz
At the 14th Austrian Soundcheck at the Studentenhaus Münzgraben, the Jazzkartell Graz (gamsbART) awarded the Harry Pepl Prize for the first time, for musicians under 30, a scholarship of 5,000 euros from the City of Graz. The Kleine Zeitung gives 17 November as the date. Heckel dates the founding of the prize to 2009, which contemporary sources refute. The first winner is the saxophonist Wolfgang Schiftner, co-founder of the JazzWerkstatt Wien.
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6 December 2006
“A Tribute to Harry Pepl” at the Porgy & Bess
Vienna
On Wednesday 6 December 2006, Lorenz Raab and Raphael Preuschl, the Andy Manndorff Trio, the Koehne Quartet and Peter Ponger played at the Porgy & Bess in Vienna. The concert films of Goodman 1980 and of the Jazzzwio in Montreux 1981 were shown; the proceeds went to the estate administration.
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17 November 2008
18th Austrian Soundcheck: award ceremony and CD/DVD presentation
Graz
On Monday 17 November 2008, the CD and DVD “Pepl/Pirchner Jazzzwio live in Montreux und Innsbruck” were presented in Graz and the Harry Pepl Prize was awarded. The winner is the trombonist and composer Daniel Riegler, leader of the ensemble Studio Dan and co-founder of the JazzWerkstatt Wien.
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2010s
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2010
Harry Pepl Prize for Stefan Heckel
Graz
At the Austrian Soundcheck 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 in 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 in Graz, Austria; according to Ö1 and mica 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 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 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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2020s
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26 November 2025
Austrian Jazz Award: 2nd place for “Live”
Velden
At the Austrian Jazz Award 2025 at Casino Velden on Wednesday 26 November 2025, the album took 2nd place in the Best Album category, behind the Kenji Herbert Trio and ahead of the Tobias Meissl Trio.
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