Bernhard Drax

Current

owner at draxtor.com

Past

Mentor at BAVC
composer at SamFilm GmbH
News Director KAZU 90.3 fm at CSUMB

musician, engineer at self-employed studio work
Musician at BMG Music

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles
Richard-Strauss Conservatory, Munich, Germany

Connections

331 connections

Industry

Media Production

Bernhard Drax’s Summary

Bernhard Drax writes music for TV, commercials and feature film. As a session musician, he wrote, arranged and played guitar, piano and a variety of other instruments on well over 30 albums. His orchestral score for the Disney comedy "Sommer" gained critical acclaim in Germany as the film remained among the top ten for 4 consecutive months in 2008.

In the virtual world “Second Life” Bernhard regularly files machinima reportages on social and political issues. His story on virtual Guantanamo won the 2008 Human Rights Media Awards from internews France. He recently started his own production company draxtor.com and has delivered promotional machinima for clients such as Manpower Inc., CommerzBank and Santa Clara University's "California Legacy" project.

As news director at NPR member station KAZU in Pacific Grove from 2002 to 2004, Bernhard was instrumental in transforming the local news operation by producing high quality local content as well as training reporters and technical staff.

Bernhard studied composition at the Richard-Strauss Conservatory in Munich Germany and audio engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is currently in pre-production on the music for a comedy feature (release spring 2010) and the virtual worlds documentary "Login2Life" (release winter 2009).

Bernhard lives on the Central Coast of California with his wife and son.

Bernhard Drax’s Specialties:

fastest Pro Tools editor on the West Coast (man, what a claim...is it TRUE?), Final Cut, writing, orchestration, guitar, piano, clarinet, violin, accordion, oh I forgot Sibelius Peak, sound design using Native Instruments stuff, not much Ableton Live, machinima, format creation for any type of media, instrumentation, sound design, voice over, radio play, radio drama, comedy, reporting, documentary

Bernhard Drax’s Experience

owner

draxtor.com

(Media Production industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

music for commercials, image videos , features, films in virtual environments, especially Second Life, speaking engagements on media production, consulting academic institutions on new media strategy.
Mentor

BAVC

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
composer

SamFilm GmbH

(Media Production industry)

June 2006 — October 2009 (3 years 5 months)

wrote and produced orchestral score and songs for the Disney movie "Sommer". completed score for Kinofilm movie "WWGW" for its November 2007 release. currently post-production for an unnamed Disney comedy.
News Director KAZU 90.3 fm

CSUMB

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

transform local music station into leading national small market NPR station. create news programming, train volunteers, edit daily news, file for national NPR programs.
musician, engineer

self-employed studio work

(Media Production industry)

June 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 11 months)

co-engineered or played various instruments on over 50 albums for MCA, Sony-BMG, edel, ZYX, Virgin labels among many others.
Musician

BMG Music

(Privately Held; Music industry)

September 1994 — May 1996 (1 year 9 months)

Bandmember, composer, arranger for BMG Ariola (Munich) recording artist "Samuel's Dream"

Bernhard Drax’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Certificate , Recording Engineering , 1999 — 2001
Richard-Strauss Conservatory, Munich, Germany

Diploma , music education, performance , 1993 — 1996