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Artist
Ondřej Pivec
12+ albums
jazzorganCzech
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Ondřej Pivec was born in 1984 in Brno, where he completed the seven year elementary music school curriculum in classical piano. In 1999 he moved to Prague and applied to the Summer Jazz Workshop, where he encountered jazz music under the tutelage of NajPonk, Kuba Stankiewicz, Michał Tokaj, Pavel Włosok and others. He was so taken with jazz that he attended another two summer workshops and put together his first quintet, Mantis, one year later. His first more significant engagement came in 2002 with Roman Pokorný and his band, thanks to which Pivec began to reorient himself from piano to that legendary keyboard instrument, the Hammond organ, on which he also plays the bass lines with his left hand. At the same time he started to work together with the singer Yvonne Sanchez in her Brazilian Groove project, and in the year 2004 alone, he managed to play around 130 concerts with these two bands in Prague, throughout the Czech Republic and abroad. In 2004 he also met the Italian organ virtuoso Alberto Marsico, taking a number of lessons from him. In 2005 Pivec left the Roman Pokorný Band to go his own way, founding Organic Quartet with his classmates from the Post-Secondary School of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory (guitarist Libor Šmoldas, saxophonist Jakub Doležal and drummer Tomáš Hobzek). He also started to work periodically with German guitarist Christian Rover. 2005 was also the year that Pivec won the Soloist of the Year award at the Philips International Jazz Festival, wh
