Piano
Masterclass (for the Dance Workshop, see below)
Saturday afternoon, March 29th 2014 between 14:30 and 15:30 PM,
Stichting Boogie Promotions Holland organizes a Piano Masterclass by Martin
Pyrker (AT).
Martin will be playing the piano and tell about boogie woogie, piano blues,
techniques, styles and his views on boogie woogie and piano blues.
The Masterclass is open for everybody and primarily meant to be attended
by enthusiasts, fans and piano players (amateurs and professionals).
Reservation
is required. Entrance
fee is € 10. Payment is cash, before the start of the Masterclass.
The Masterclass is in English.
Make your reservation for this fun and
educational opportunity! To make your reservation, please click here.
Attendants:
Berg, mr. K.J. de (Urk, Holland)
Blom,
mr. H. (Harderwijk, Holland)
Boer, mr. N. de (Lunteren, Holland)
Boer, mrs. A. de (Lunteren, Holland)
Crebas, mr. H. (Urk, Holland)
Holleman, mr. R.
Holleman, mr. R.B.
Jochems, mr. M. (Putten, Holland)
Krabbe, mr. R. (Maassluis, Holland)
Prinsen, mrs. V. (Uithoorn)
Starreveld, mr. H.P.J. (Driebergen, Holland)
Warmerdam, mr. D. (Hoofddorp, Holland)
EXTRA:
After the Piano Masterclass, there is an Open Stage. Young
talents and others can perform 1 or 2 boogie woogie, piano blues or jazz
songs. In case of too many attendants, the organisation will make a selection.
The performances during the Open Stage are only accessible for attendants
of the Piano Masterclass.
The Open Stage ends at 16:30 PM.
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The
Piano Masterclass will be given by Martin Pyrker
Martin
and Sabine Pyrker
Martin
Pyrker was born in 1954 in Vienna and discovered his love for the piano
and for the blues in 1971, when he was 17 years young and already playing
the drums for 4 years.
A blues program on the radio, an acquaintance with the pianists Vince
Weber, Hans-Georg Möller and Axel Zwingenberger from Hamburg, who
caused at that time the boogie woogie fever in Germany, and the meeting
with the Viennese “blues guru” Hans Maitner, protagonist of
the legendary radio program “Living Blues” fascinated Martin
Pyrker of a kind of music that has meanwhile become 100 years old: the
classical piano-blues and boogie-woogie.
Pyrker’s legendary concerts in the 1970s with Zwingenberger, Weber
and Möller and, originated from this, the first piano-boogie woogie
record in Austria (“Boogie Woogie Session 76” / EMI) were
the beginning of a growing enthusiasm for this kind of music in Austria
and Germany and influenced further generations of young pianists.
Solo and together with many other well-known artists at home and abroad,
Martin gave a lot of concerts in jazz clubs, blues bars and at blues and
boogie festivals, where he also shared the piano with long gone legends
of the blues: Blind John Davis, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slims, Champion
Jack Dupree, just to mention a few of them.
Since
the legendary boogie woogie festival of Cologne (WDR 1974) and Vienna
(concert hall 1976) the renaissance of boogie woogie could not be stopped
anymore, unnumerous tours through Europe and USA followed (as "Stars
of Boogie Woogie" and others).
More than 2000 performances and concerts at home and abroad have left
their mark on Pyrkers career since then. Also a lot of records were produced,
out from a repertoire of more than 100 own compositions and the most important
blues and boogie woogie standards, solo and together with international
stars of the blues, recorded in Vienna, Wels, Paris and Fort Worth.
Martin Pyrker today is the most known authentic blues and boogie pianist
in Austria and his CDs are well known in USA, the origin country of this
kind of music.
The
Piano Masterclass in 2007 by Bob Seeley
(USA).
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