Chronology
Life and work year by year. Every entry is documented; we welcome additions and corrections.
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22 November 2010
Harry Pepl Prize for Stefan Heckel
Graz
On Monday, 22 November 2010, at the close of the 20th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) at the Orpheum, a concert venue, in Graz, Austria, the Styrian pianist and accordionist Stefan Heckel receives the third Harry Pepl Prize of the Graz promoter gamsbART, a grant of 4,000 euros (the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, gives 4,500 euros after the ceremony), expressly as the starting point for a doctoral thesis on Pepl's work. As a prelude, Daniel Riegler, prize winner 2008, and Matthias Muche play three of Pepl's real-time compositions as a trombone duo, among them “125/250” from the Air Mail years. 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 billed as “Super Sax!” was scheduled for the Dom im Berg and, according to the Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, on the day of the concert, moved to the Orpheum extra; 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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9 November 2015
Harry Pepl Prize for Viola Falb
Graz
On Monday, 9 November 2015, at the opening of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck (festival in Graz) in the Dom im Berg in Graz, Austria, the saxophonist and composer Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize from gamsbART; the laudatory speech is given by Ute Pinter. The Kleine Zeitung, a daily newspaper from Graz, and the NÖN, the regional weekly of Lower Austria, give 4,000 euros, the Falter 5,000 euros. The dating to 2016 by mica (Austria's music information centre) and Wikipedia is thus superseded. 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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