David Helbock

piano, rhodes, synthesizer | Austria

Helbock belongs to the generation of jazz musicians who are heading off in their own individual directions, pushing the boundaries, radically re-configuring our understanding of what old and new music is, re-aligning composition and improvisation, and challenging common pre-conceptions about style and personality.

“Accomplished, melodic playing and a leavening sense of absurdity.” (The London Times)

David Helbock’s fine musicianship goes hand in hand with a remarkable ability to communicate on several levels. As British writer Peter Bacon has written, there is “much to intrigue the mind, much to warm the heart and much to tickle the funny bone.” German critic Roland Spiegel has elegantly described his music as “never cerebral, but captivating both the head and the body...”.

A great project coming deep from David Helbock's heart in which the "young wild lions" of Austrian jazz meet one of the most sought-after sideman of international jazz of the last decades - with a lot of percussion and groove and above all many keyboards and synthesizers completely in the spirit of Austrias most successful jazz musician - Joe Zawinul.

David Helbock (piano, rhodes, synthesizer), Peter Madsen (piano), Herbert Pirker (drums), Raphael Preuschl (E-bass, bass ukulele), Claudio Spieler (percussion)

Camille Bertault is France's new star of vocal jazz. Charming, humorous, expressive and unprecedentedly versatile. Le Figaro calls her "an unheard-of talent". She became famous with breakneck virtuoso vocal versions of intricate bebop standards. Today, she sees herself much more as a musical storyteller, especially with her refined original compositions, blurring influences from modern jazz, Brazilian music and French chanson. Her connection to the piano, and thus also with her duo partner David Helbock, is a very special one - after all, she began her career as an award-winning classical pianist. And the two share a special love of Brazilian music, especially that of pianist Hermeto Pascoal. David Helbock, on the other hand, like Camille Bertault, is a master of storytelling in music. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Helbock "belongs to the generation of young jazz musicians who are currently breaking the boundaries of their profession", who are radically changing the musical understanding of old and new, of composition and improvisation, of style and personality, and who are going their own way. Bertault and Helbock performed as a duo for the first time at the Austrian "Inntöne Festival" in early August 2021, and the connection ignited instantly, both on and off stage.

Camille Bertault (Voice), David Helbock (piano, rhodes, synthesizer)

24.06.2023 DE - Schwerin // KlangWert Camille Bertault & David Helbock | PLAYGROUND
25.06.2023 DE - Timmendorfer Strand-Niendorf // Jazz Baltica Camille Bertault & David Helbock | PLAYGROUND
16.07.2023 DE - Unterföhring // Jazzweekend David Helbock AUSTRIAN SYNDICATE
30.07.2023 SK - Liptovský Mikuláš // mikulasjazzfest Camille Bertault & David Helbock | PLAYGROUND
12.10.2023 DE - Gauting // Bosco Camille Bertault & David Helbock | PLAYGROUND
15.11.2023 AT - Dornbirn // Spielboden David Helbock AUSTRIAN SYNDICATE
23.11.2023 CH - St. Gallen // Gambrinus JAZZ PLUS Camille Bertault & David Helbock | PLAYGROUND
15.12.2023 DE - Ratingen // eastPLUGGED® Iiro Rantala // David Helbock
26.01.2024 AT - Wien // Porgy & Bess Iiro Rantala // David Helbock
27.01.2024 AT - Wien // Porgy & Bess Iiro Rantala // David Helbock
28.01.2024 AT - Wien // Porgy & Bess David Helbock AUSTRIAN SYNDICATE