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Irene Kepl (born April 3, 1982) is an Austrian violinist and composer who works in various genres, including free improvisation. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize for music composition. She lives in Vienna.

Early life and education

Kepl was born in Linz (Austria) and studied music at Anton Bruckner University, earning both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree.[1][2] During her time at the university, she was a member of the Bruckner Orchestra (the resident orchestra for the Brucknerhaus), and was a composer and performer at Linz's regional theater, the Landestheater. Kepl also wrote soundtrack music for the short films Die Wirtin (2002) and Die Stimme (2005).

In 2011, she was awarded a European Union Scholarship from the Donne in Musica program, which led to study in Italy.[3] That same year, Kepl composed and performed the music for the animated film Mein Grün ist vielleicht Dein Blau.[4]

During her college years, Kepl became a founding member of the Linz-based Balkan band Jazzwa. The band recorded a studio album (No 1) in 2005 and a live album (Jazzwa Live) in 2010. The live album was recorded at the Landestheater on June 9, 2010.[5]

Career

Kepl began to achieve national recognition in 2012 when she won second place in Klagenfurt's Gustav Mahler Prize.[6] She was subsequently featured on Jazznacht, a music program on Österreich 1, the cultural channel for the Austrian public service broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk.[7] And in 2014, Kepl was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize for music composition.[8]

2012 was the same year that Kepl formed a jazz/groove string quartet, Violet Spin, and performed with them and Indonesian jazz pianist Dwiki Dharmawan at the 2012 Jazz Fest Wien.[9] In 2014, the quartet was invited to perform at the 12 Points jazz festival (held that year in Umeå, Sweden).[10] It also appeared on the Österreichischer Rundfunk-sponsored Treffpunkt Neue Musik (New Music Venue), in performance at the broadcaster's Landesstudio Oberösterreich.[11] Violet Spin worked again with Dharmawan at the 2015 Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival.[12]

Another of Kepl's performing groups, the ensemble Verso, had its first concert appearance in 2012 when she was commissioned to compose a work for the New Adits Festival in Klagenfurt.[13] The work, entitled Get Weaving!, was later recorded at a concert in 2013 and released in 2016 by the American online label Zeromoon.[14] Ensemble Verso was also featured at the Brucknerhaus's International Brucknerfest in 2015, performing another of Kepl's compositions (Brain).[15][16]

Kepl returned to the recording studio in 2014, this time in collaboration with American drummer Mark Holub. The album, Taschendrache, was recorded in Vienna and released in 2015 by the British label Slam Productions.[17] This was followed in 2016 by Resonators, an album in which Kepl joined two other musicians in recording free-form works in various resonant stone buildings in the Czech Republic. It was released in 2016 by Another Timbre (a British label). Kepl composed two of the four pieces that appear on that album.[18] 2016 also saw the release of Vergeben und Vergessen, a short film for which Kepl provided the music.[19]

Aside from Violet Spin's 2015 performance in Jakarta, Kepl's first recognition outside of Europe came in 2017 when she was booked for an eleven-date tour of Australia and New Zealand.[20][21] The tour coincided with the release of Kepl's first complete solo album, SololoS. It was recorded in a suburb of Paris in 2016 for the French label Fou Records.[22]

Critical reception

Writing about the Taschendrache album for Jazzwise magazine, Daniel Spicer found that Kepl's work seemed "more intent on establishing mood than making clear melodic statements". Regarding the interplay between Kepl and Holub, Spicer found it "convincing and compelling, with a genuine sense of dialogue".[23]

In his review of SololoS, jazz critic Dave Foxall noted the album's various moods, starting with an "uneasy sawing of the strings", followed by "slower, steadier exploration" and "overwhelming zeal". He summarized his impression of the album as "50+ minutes of pure sonic brio".[24]

Awards

  • Gustav Mahler Prize (2012) – Second-place prize for her composition "Rise"[25][6]

General references

  • "Irene Kepl". MusicAustria.at. Music Information Center Austria. Retrieved January 30, 2017. The entry at this database provides lists of compositions, general biographic detail, and other information. It appears to have been last updated in 2012.

References

  1. ^ Fellinger, Andreas (April 10, 2013). "Richtig viel spielen ..." musicaustria.at (in German). Music Information Center Austria. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. ^ "Profile of Irene Kepl". diemusiksammlung.at (in German). Amt der Oö. Landesregierung, Direktion Kultur. 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "WIMUST List of Composers programmed since 1978". donneinmusica.org. WIMUST. 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  4. ^ "Mein Grün ist vielleicht dein Blau - Alfred Grubbauer". alfredgrubbauer.at. Alfred Grubbauer. 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2017. The film also has the English title Chinese Whispers.
  5. ^ "Balkan Fieber Sonderveranstaltung". landestheater-linz.at. Landestheater Linz. 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Gustav-Mahler-Compositionprice awarded". orf.at. ORF. June 12, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "Die Ö1 Jazznacht". oe1.orf.at (in German). Österreichischer Rundfunk. July 6, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2017. The host of the show was Christian Bakonyi.
  8. ^ a b "Ausgezeichnete Arbeiten des Theodor Körner Preis 2014". theodorkoernerfonds.at. Theodor Körner Fonds. 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  9. ^ "Dwiki Dharmawan String Quartet Project mit Oliver Steger & Violet Spin". viennajazz.org (in German). Jazzfest Vienna. July 8, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  10. ^ "12 Point Artists - Violet Spin". 12points.ie. 12 Points Festival. 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  11. ^ "Treffpunkt Neue Musik". litmus.at. Treffpunkt Neue Musik. 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  12. ^ "Dwiki Dharmawhan meets Violet Spin". wartajazz.com (in Indonesian). Warta Jazz. March 10, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  13. ^ "Program of New Adits 2012". vereinflechtwerk.wordpress.com. New Adits Festival. 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  14. ^ The recording was released as Zeromoon ZERO173. A limited-distribution promotional CD titled Commissioned Work for "New Adits - Festival fur Gegenwartige Musik" identifies the date and venue of the recording as April 15, 2013 at the Porgy and Bess Jazz Music Club in Vienna.
  15. ^ Kepl, Irene (September 1, 2015). "Mit Bach und Krach". Die Referentin (Interview) (in German). Interviewed by Stephan Roiss. Retrieved February 1, 2017. Amongst other topics covered in the interview, Kepl discusses her then-recent three-week residency at the Omi International Arts Center in New York and her reasons for forming Ensemble Verso. For the former, also see "2015 Musicians in Residence". artomi.org. OMI International Arts Center. 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  16. ^ "Kalendar September 2015". Brucknerhaus Magazin (in German). Brucknerhaus Linz. September–October 2015. p. 39. Retrieved February 2, 2017.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  17. ^ Taschendrache (2015) Slam Productions SLAMCD298.
  18. ^ "Resonators". anothertimbre.com. Another Timbre. 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2017. The catalog number for the release was Another Timbre at104. The two pieces written by Kepl were "Soma" and "Pirol".
  19. ^ "Filmdetails Vergeben Und Vergessen". firststeps.de. First Steps Deutschen Filmakademie e.V. 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  20. ^ Vortex (November 13, 2016). "2017 Program SoundOut". soundout2017.blogspot.com.au. SoundOut. Retrieved January 29, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  21. ^ "the Now now - Festivalprogram". the Now now Festival. December 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  22. ^ SololoS (2017) Fou Records FR-CD 20.
  23. ^ Spicer, Daniel (March 2015). "Irene Kepl & Mark Holub". Jazzwise. London: Jazzwise Publications. p. 40. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  24. ^ Foxall, Dave (January 17, 2017). "Fou Records Round Up". ajazznoise.com. A Jazz Noise. Retrieved January 28, 2017. Foxall is a frequent contributor to Jazz Journal magazine.
  25. ^ "Recipients of the Gustav-Mahler-Price". musikforum.at. Musikforum Viktring. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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