About
Roland Neffe is an Austrian jazz musician (vibraphone, Marimba, percussion), composer and performer of New music. He has been living in Berlin since 1995.
Roland Neffe studied classical percussion and Jazz at the Musikhochschule Graz from 1987 to 1992, and jazz vibraphone with Bill Molenhof at the Nuremberg Conservatory from 1992 to 1994. In 1994 and 1995 he studied at the Berklee College of Music with Gary Burton and Ed Saindon. In 1996/97 he studied with David Friedman at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
As a Vibraphonist and marimba player, he is concerned with improvised music and Jazz of various kinds. he initiated projects, the Trio Vibes Beyond (with Achim Tang and Reinhardt Winkler, the released two albums with jazz house music and Unit Records) and the Quartet Moodra (with Nathalie Claude, Oliver Saar, Johannes Gunkel) are. Neffe is as a percussionist member of the Ensemble Mosaik, and Studio Percussion. In the field of new music he recorded works by Harald Muenz, Luís Antunes Pena and Sarah Nemtsov.
With Christian Kögel and Marc Muellbauer, he formed the Wood & Steel Trio, an Album with Michael Schiefel. He is also on albums by Andrei Hermlin, Marc Muellbauer, Peter Fulda, Sido and Christian Lillinger (Open Form for Society).
Since 2010 Neffe has also been a lecturer for jazz vibraphone at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg.