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Pablo Held

"Forest of Oblivion" release in september '08 !

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator 21 year-old pianist Pablo Held studies at the "Hochschule für Musik Köln" with Prof. Hubert Nuss. In 1999, 2003 and 2005 pablo has won the 1st Prize in the "Jugend Jazzt" Competition of the state NRW, Germany. Up to now Pablo got the chance to work with the WDR BigBand, Paul Heller, Matthias Nadolny, Uli Beckerhoff, Henning Berg, Niels Klein, Manfred Schoof, Matthias Bergmann an many more. Among his teachers were John Taylor, Achim Kaufmann, Florian Ross and Vladislav Sendecki. Pablo has performed in USA, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Holland, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and Serbia. Recently, Pablo recorded his first CD "Forest of Oblivion" with his trio for Pirouet Records (www.pirouet.de). The CD will be released in September '08!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/1/2006
Band Members: PABLO HELD TRIO :
Pablo Held (Piano, comp.)
Robert Landfermann (Bass)
Jonas Burgwinkel (Drums)
PABLO HELD QUARTET :
Pablo Held (Piano / Fender Rhodes, comp.)
Klaus Heidenreich (Trombone)
Robert Landfermann (Bass)
Nils Tegen (Drums, comp.)
PABLO HELD TRIO FEAT. NIELS KLEIN:
Pablo Held (Piano, comp)
Robert Landfermann (Bass)
Jonas Burgwinkel (Drums)
Niels Klein (Tenor Sax / Bass Clarinet)
DEGENHELD :
Matthias Bergmann (Flügelhorn)
Benjamin Degen (Trombone)
Pablo Held (Piano)
Sebastian Klose (Bass)
Nils Tegen (Drums)
As a sideman :
ANDREWJETSKI:
Jens Böckamp - Tenor Sax
Riaz Khabirpour - Guitar
Pablo Held - Piano
Markus Braun - Bass
Max Andrzejewski - Drums
LIVINGROOM
Frank Sackenheim - Tenor Sax/ Moderation
Nobert Scholly - Guitar
Pablo Held - Piano
Robert Lanfermann - Bass
Jonas Burgwinkel - Drums
+ special Guests
DENIS GÄBEL 4
Denis Gäbel - Tenor Sax
Pablo Held - Piano
Matthias Nowak - Bass
Jonas Burgwinkel / Hendrik Smock - Drums
JAN TORKEWITZ QUINTET
Jan Torkewitz - Tenor / Soprano Sax
Klaus Heidenreich - Trombone Pablo Held - Piano
Robert Landfermann - Bass
Silvio Morger - Drums
OUT OF PRAGUE
Frank Scheele - voc
John-Dennis Renken - Trumpet
Ondrej Stveracek - Tenor Sax Pablo Held - Piano
Tomas Baros - Bass
Christoph Hillmann - Drums
POP GOES JAZZ
Frank Scheele - Voc
Holger Werner - Reeds
Pablo Held - Piano
Markus Braun - Bass
Silvio Morger - Drums

Influences: miles davis, maurice ravel, herbie hancock, wayne shorter, federico mompou, paul bley, shirley horn, toru takemitsu, freddie hubbard, bill evans, radiohead, charles tournemire, allan holdsworth, larry goldings, igor stravinsky, jim beard, john williams, lennie tristano,oliver messiaen joni mitchell, daniel barenboim, joao gilberto, gabriel faure, john scofield, george coleman, erik satie, john taylor, walter gieseking, joe zawinul, beatles, hubert nuss, claude debussy, sonny rollins, danilo perez, stevie wonder, keith jarrett, björk, achim kaufmann, brian blade, rickie lee jones, florian ross, coldplay, bill stewart, john mclaughlin, seamus blake, ben monder, venetian snares, aaron parks, sting, tony williams, bill carrothers, james taylor, kevin hays, kurt rosenwinkel, kenny wheeler, john abercrombie and ALSO : my family & friends, movies, books, youtube, myspace, and my ipod
Record Label: Pirouet
Type of Label: Indie

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some people who i find worth listening to:Elliot Cardinauxhttp://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=use r.viewprofile&friendid=66824305Wolf-Parkinson-Whitehttp://pr ofile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...
Posted by Pablo Held on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:29:00 PST