GLOW
GLOW: A Quartet for Silence, Resonance, and Inner Contemplation
The Advent season invites us to reflect, pause, and consciously experience peace.
With GLOW, Jakob presents a quartet of four distinguished musical personalities from the Viennese scene, giving these moments musical space. Four musicians from Vienna have developed a program especially for this special time of year.
GLOW’s music moves between contemporary jazz, chamber music, and minimalist structures. It creates a space for fragility, calm, and reflection—aspects that are often lost during this time of year. Jakob Helling’s compositions unfold their special power in sacred spaces, where architecture and acoustics become resonant chambers for sound and silence. Shared silence also finds its place in the music and becomes part of the composition. This creates a musical meditation, a shared breathing space that serves as an ideal preparation for the end of the year.
GLOW is not a classic Advent program. It is a moment of peace and togetherness in a challenging time. Minimalist, acoustic music creates a new resonance within us and invites us to find strength and calm.
LINEUP:
Jakob Helling – trumpet, flugelhorn, mellotron
Matthew Halpin – tenor saxophone
Alois Eberl – trombone
Beate Wiesinger – double bass
WINDOWS WIDE OPEN
WINDOWS WIDE OPEN is a chamber music collective in the process of being formed under Jakobs guidance. The windows are wide open to help the wind (or whoever wants to enter through the window) blow the dust off of chamber music. It played it’s inital concert at Jazzwerkstatt Graz in May 2025. There is a release in the making.
Artists Artists featured with WINDOWS WIDE OPEN so far:
Veronika Morscher– vocals
Emily Steward – violin
Cornelia Perwein – cello
Matthew Halpin – tenor sax
Mattheus Jardim – drums
Kenji Herbert – guitar / bass
Jakob Helling – Rhodes & composition
With this project Jakob expands his compositional language, works on precisely developed sound architectures, and continues to focus his work on the social responsibility of composing.
jakob helling concert big band
The Jakob Helling Concert Big Band has been my main project for a few years. It will rest now for a little while, below some infos and impressions from the past tours and recordings:
We played some concerts in 2019 / 2020 in Austria and Germany and have released a Live Album on Double Vinyl, CD, Download and Stream, that you can find on: jakobhelling.bandcamp.com/In August 2022 we recorded a new program at beautiful Vienna Konzerthaus Studio that features an artist that I always wanted to work with: the phenomenal dutch singer Fay Claassen! It was released on November 3rd 2023 – and here are a few impressions from the studio:
2022 / 2023: the band featuring Fay Claassen
Get the album on 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩: https://jakobhelling.bandcamp.com/album/nerds-sweeties or order it directly here.
𝐓𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥: https://tidal.com/browse/album/326564218
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜: https://music.apple.com/de/album/nerds-sweeties/1714960295
𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: https://open.spotify.com/…/album/6tCBT2cdn2CdsXqr2i9F7W…
Photo: Lukas Diller
Photo: Sophia Jacoby
It takes some time to mix all the music, our sond engeneer Reinhard Buchta and I did some mixing sessions in January and March 2023 and we finished it in summer. Finally on Nove,mber 3rd 2023 the music was released via Quinton Records!
Here some more impressions from our time at Konzerthaus studio in Vienna by Simon Reithofer:
Live in 2019
The Jakob Helling Concert Big Band is my main project.
We played some concerts in 2019 / 2020 in Austria and Germany and have released a Live Album on Double Vinyl, CD, Download and Stream, that you can find on: jakobhelling.bandcamp.com/
Some impressions from our concert in Vienna by Valerie Maltseva (January 2019)
Photo by Valerie Maltseva (maltseva.me)
Photo by Valerie Maltseva (maltseva.me)
Jakob Helling 