Jakob Helling (D)
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Jakob Helling, born 1990 in Bielefeld, Germany, is a composer, arranger and trumpet player currently based in Vienna, Austria. He dedicates a big part of his work writing music for various ensembles such as his “Jakob Helling Concert Big Band”, he plays trumpet as live musican / in TV productions and in the studio as well as conducting and/or producing for artists such as Sarah McKenzie, Jim Rotondi or Marianne Mendt.
In early years he studied Trumpet in Bremen, Germany before moving on to Folkwang University of Arts in Essen where he got his Bachelor degree in Jazz Trumpet. Afterwards he moved to Graz, Austria, to study Jazz composition with Ed Partyka and Michael Abene that he passed with distinction.
Some highlights of his career were composition and arrangement comissions for ensembles such as Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Subway Jazz Orchestra in Cologne, Notes And Tontes Jazz Orchestra in Vienna or the Concept Art Orchestra in Prag or soloists such as Bobby Shew and Jim Rotondi as well as working with Maria Schneider, playing as Substitut in WDR Big Band Cologne and being two year member of Bundesjazzorchester (“BuJazzO”).
As trumpeter he was one of three finalists for the second trumpet chair of the Danish Radio Big Band in Copenhagen. As composer he was finalist in “Jazz Comp Graz 2017” and in “Neuer deutscher Jazzpreis 2018” in Mannheim.
With his “Jakob Helling Concert Big Band” he won several awards* and released two albums:
“Live in 2019” (2020 – self-published) and
“Nerds & Sweeties” feat. Fay Claassen (2023 – Quinton Records)
(* “Förderpreis” of Career Service Center at University of Arts Graz (KUG) as well as an honor price for outstanding alumni)
