Helmut Kirisits
Songwriter, Composer, Guitar Player, Guitar Teacher, Co-Founder "7 Ports Music", Co-Founder "Composer Camps"
Helmut loves music in all its facets. Being open to different ideas and styles is very important to him. He has gained experience in a wide variety of areas.
He's been working as a professional musician since 2004. This includes jobs as a guitarist, composer and musicologist, music productions (films, bands, companies) and a wide variety of engagements in general. He is also COO at “7 Ports Music”.
Appearances as a guitarist, e.g. musical with Manuel Ortega and Harald Zuschrader, among others, with bands with chart successes, studio jobs, Danube Island Festival in Vienna, Night of Guitars 2019 (the summit of the Upper Austrian guitar scene), Jack 7 Port band, as a song writer and guitarist at international songwriting camps, etc.
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Occupation as a guitar teacher: Helmut used his experiences as a guitar teacher and musician, among other things, firstly to create a comprehensive German online course for electric guitar beginners and secondly to make a significant contribution during the first years of the guitar learning app “Fretello” (learning path, training plans, content, machine learning, etc.).
Helmut also has a particular passion for orchestral music. His works and arrangements for symphony orchestras have been performed by professional orchestras internationally, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in Italy and Argentina. He is looking forward to the collaboration, creativity and emotions in the songwriting camp.