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Ondrej Pivec ORGANIC Quartet was born in 2005. This exciting group consists of respected and already well-established musicians. Organic Quartet plays original music inspired by contemporary giants such as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sam Yahel, Peter Bernstein, Brad Mehldau, and Wayne Shorter. The band is also influenced by great icons from other musical genres including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ray Charles, and The Beatles. Organic Quartet’s musicality stems from traditional roots yet carries a modern taste. Organic Quartet is established as one of the favorite uprising jazz bands with their energetic live shows selling out clubs across the Czech Republic and beyond (FIAP Jean Monnet Paris, Jazz Club St. Germain Paris, Kunstfabrik Schlott Berlin and more).

Most of the band members are school graduates of the Prague's Jaroslav Jezek Jazz College. The band members are: Tomas Hobzek on drums who is a member of the city Opera Orchestra, Libor Smoldas on Guitar who recently received a grant to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston and also often plays in his own band (Libor Smoldas Trio), Kuba Dolezal on Saxophone; a popular instrumentalist also touring with the European jazz youth orchestra and currently studying Saxophone studies at Musical Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The heart of Organic Quartet led by Ondrej Pivec on the hammond organ, the 24 year old charismatic and promising talent who in his young age has caught the attention of national and international critics. In 2005 Pivec was named as “Best soloist of the year” by the Philips International Jazz Festival committee. The following year after recording their first album entitled Don’t Get Ideas which was hailed by critics and received Czech Music Academy award for best jazz and blues CD in 2006. Pivec was elected “Organist of the month” for October 2006 by International archives of Jazz Organists.

Ondrej Pivec started off on classical piano but soon turned to jazz. Before he was twenty he switched from piano to the hammond organ. He undertook lessons from the legendary English Hammond player Mike Carr, Italian organ virtuoso, Albert Marsico, and Sam Yahel. While admiring organists such as Sam Yahel and Larry Young, Pivec has already created his own original style. Using his left hand, he creates very strong and agile organ bass lines with unexpected sureness and virtuosity. Ondrej Pivec has toured all over the Czech Republic and abroad, (Semper Oper in Dresden accompanying Christian Rover; tour in Turkey as a member of the Yvonne Sanchez Brazilian Groove band supporting the drummer legend - Billy Cobbham’s Culture Mix Band, St. Germain club in Paris, Kunstfabrik in Berlin, Romanian and Moldavian tour with Organic Quartet, British Cheltenham jazz festival, Getxo & Bermeo festivals in Spain and more).

Today, Ondrej Pivec is respected as one of the most remarkable musicians on the Czech & International jazz and fusion scenes. Despite his young age he himself has taken part in creation of ten CDs, three of them where he appears as a leader.

Since January 2009, Ondrej is studying in New York city with a famous hammond organist, Sam Yahel (who appears with Joshua Redman, Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell for example), and also with hammond organist Pat Bianchi (Joey DeFrancesco, Mark Whitfield, Byron Landham).