Helmut Sinz

composition•piano

Projects:

1. •‘Helmut Sinz Quartet’  (Wanja Slavin – as, ss, alto-clarinet, Helmut Sinz – compostiion, piano, Andreas Kurz – bass, Stephan Staudt – dr); in April 2007, a new CD was recorded at ‘Realistic Sound Studios’, Munich; mixed and mastered at ‘Klangwasser Studio’, Schrobenhausen; 
   

2. •,Big Yellow Taxi‘  Lisa Wahlandt (voc) - Kurt Härtl (g) - Helmut Sinz (p/acc) -Thorsten Soos (b) - Stephan Staudt (dr/perc)              
   

          www.big-yellow-taxi.com        

         Youtube-Video-Link

         Musik erhältlich bei:

          Nasswetter Music Group / I Tunes /Musicload

1. •,FEI SHO‘ Alpine Weltmusik       Anschi Hacklinger (Bass/Melodika), Martin Lidl (Gitarre/Percussion), Helmut Sinz (Akkordeon/Gesang), Robert Alonso (Trompete/Tenorhorn/Gesang) und Schorsch Karrer (Percussion/Marimbaphon)                                                      
   

         www.fei-scho.de

Scholarships/Prizes

1. •2002   Winner of the 'New Generation’ - competition of the ‘Jazz an der Donau Festival’ (Straubing, Bavaria) and Bavarian Broadcasting with the band project ‘Die Firma Happy Madness’ for the originality of compositions
   

2. •2004   The Munich Richard-Strauss-Foundation Scholarship awarded for   “… remarkable compositional and pianistic creativity’.“
   

3. •2006   The composition ‚Kadale Modenz’ interpreted by the‚Helmut Sinz Quartet’, was among the final 10 compositions chosen by the judges of the internationally famous Thelonious Monk BMI Composers Competition 2006’ , Washington D.C.
   

Teaching

1. •2001-...    Teacher for jazz/rock/pop-piano at the Downtown Music Institute, Augsburg
   

2. •2008-...    Teacher at the Leopold-Mozart-Centre of the University of Augsburg (faculty of music education) for school piano techniques (rock/pop)
   

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