piano, composition, musicology
Stephen Ferguson
Wrote the English liner notes for Pepl’s piano album “Flow” (1996), translated Georg Pepl’s liner notes into English and edited the recording together with Daniel Pepl. In his text he calls Pepl “one of Europe’s undisputed jazz masters”.
British composer, pianist and producer from Glasgow, Scotland, who lives in Vienna, Austria. He studied piano in London and musicology at the University of Vienna (doctorate), was assistant to György Ligeti and editor of the Ligeti edition at Schott from 1992 to 1996, and has written film music since the early 1980s.
More about Stephen Ferguson: filmkunst.at
Voices
his very own instrument–the guitar–where he is one of Europe’s undisputed jazz masters
Harry Pepl is a musician who hears. He has that seldom gift–to immediately translate what he hears into music coming from his own fingers, into music coming from his own voice.
It is a dream played awake, full of snatches of music, gestures, spaces.
he is simply unafraid of any musical task, and has the jazz man’s joy of real time composition.
Let us simply enjoy the novelty and richness of this master of the strings becoming a novice at the keyboard, a masterly novice full of music, in a fast stream of rhythms and thematic lines, flowing.
