Alexander Nefzger

Alexander Nefzger (2012)

Alexander Nefzger (* 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian sound engineer who became known as a part-time pianist , accordionist , arranger and music producer in the fields of alternative , indie and pop .

Life

Nefzger traces his ancestors back to the Strohmayer , Viennese folk musicians in the 19th century and former partners of the Schrammel brothers . From the age of 6 he received piano lessons and at the age of 16 he founded his first band. As a keyboard player he played for a while with the metal band Stahlhammer until he came to Mika Vember , among others .

Nefzger trained as a sound engineer and has been working full-time as a sound designer and music supervisor at the Burgtheater in Vienna since the 1990s . He first started working for André Heller in 1999 as a part-time producer . Since then he has produced Clara Luzia , Kommando Elefant , illute and others, among others .

Works

Formations

• 1991-1992: Ynis Witrin
• 2006–2009: Clara Luzia
• since 2007: Mika Vember
• 2009-2010: Fresco

Music productions

• 1998: "-" / Ynis Witrin
• 2003: "Ruf & Echo" / André Heller - 6 numbers from the 3-fold compendium
• 2004: "Wiener Blut" / Stahlhammer (Sounds & Instrumentals)
• 2006: "The pink beast of love" / Chris Gelbmann
• 2006: "Live on!" / Kempf
• 2006: "Railroad Track" s / Clara Luzia
• 2007: "The long memory" / Clara Luzia
• 2007: "Now or Now" / Mika Vember
• 2007: "7" Split Single "/ Clara Luzia & Mika Vember
• 2008: "Broken, but happy" / Elephant command
• 2008: "The String - and then some- EP" / Clara Luzia
• 2009: "The Ground Below" / Clara Luzia
• 2009: "Queen of Noise" / Bettina Köster
• 2010: "Our Lady of the Loops" / Mika Vember
• 2010: "Always comes differently than you think" / Illute
• 2010: "Come on, let's hit grenades, that little bit of life / command elephant
• 2011: "There is always something going on" / Fresco
• 2011: "Astronaut" / Effi

• 2013: "The Feast" / Julia A. Noack
• 2013: "The way things are around us" / Illute
• 2013: "Closer" / Effi
• 2014: Messei "/ Donauwellenreiter

Theater productions (selection)

• Sound design in Burg- & Akademietheater Wien, as well as Salzburg Festival
• With Andrea Breth:
  • 2000: Judgment Day - Ödön von Horváth
  • 2000: The Sea by Edward Bond - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2001: The Käthchen von Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2001: Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2002: Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2003: The wide country by Arthur Schnitzler - Salzburg Festival
  • 2004: The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee - Akademietheater (Vienna)
  • 2004: Don Karlos by Friedrich Schiller - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2004: The cat on the hot tin roof by Tennessee Williams - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2005: The Cherry Orchard by Anton P. Chekhov - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2005: Nights underground together with Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman - RuhrTriennale
  • 2005: Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Burgtheater Vienna
  • 2008: Motortown by Simon Stephens - Akademietheater Vienna
  • 2008: Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Salzburg Festival
  • 2011: Incidents, Akademietheater Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna International: "My family has been making music for 300 years" . Interview with Nefzger from September 29, 2010. ( Memento from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• The Nefzger on MySpace