Bernd Kofler

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Bernd Kofler

Bernd Kofler (born October 30, 1964 in Graz ) is an Austrian guitarist , composer and author and director of the Music Academy Austria.

Career

Bernd Kofler studied classical guitar at the Johann Josef Fux Conservatory in Graz . In 1988 he was named "Newcomer of the Year / Guitar" by the Austrian music journal "Tschinn Bum - Das Musikmagazin" . In 1993 Bernd Kofler and the band "Session" won Europe's largest music competition "Pop-o-Drom". As a studio guitarist he took part in over 500 music productions, including for Andreas Gabalier (the album recorded by Bernd Kofler went platinum for over 20,000 units sold and was nominated for an Amadeus as album of the year ). The single recorded by him by the interpreter Niddl (Single Perfect Attitude ) was nominated for an Amadeus Austrian Music Award .

Bernd Kofler took part in various bands that are stylistically somewhere between classical, jazz, rock, pop and world music, and with these he undertook concert tours in Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. In his musical career he also played for Rainhard Fendrich , Waterloo , Margot Eskens , Andreas Gabalier , Oliver Haidt , Carl Peyer and Horst Chmela, among others . He also gained greater popularity through Europe-wide appearances and tours with Uriah Heep and the Spencer Davis Group .

Bernd Kofler has headed the Music Academy Austria since 2002 .

As a book author he writes textbooks for guitar.

literature

Bernd Kofler: Jazzweek . BKM-Verlag, 2003. Bernd Kofler: Manual for solo guitar . Nicol Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86820-069-0 .

Discography

  • Meditations (1996)
  • Saturday night (1999)
  • The Long Distance Project (with Phil Brooks, 2003)
  • Winter on the beach (2013)
  • New day (2013)
  • Summer memories (2013)
  • Deck the halls (Christmas Song) (2013)
  • Feet on the ground (2014)
  • My Lighthouse (2014)
  • Riding high (2015)
  • Take me to the sky (2016)
  • Graham John's son (feat. Janine) (2017)
  • Vanessa (2018)
  • Daydreamer (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austriancharts.at
  2. ↑ Gold & Platinum database of IFPI Austria (search artist = Andreas Gabalier)
  3. ↑ Amadeus Award nominations 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amadeusawards.at
  4. ^ SR archive of Austrian popular music
personal data
SURNAME Kofler, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian guitarist, composer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz