Editing

As a trumpeter’s daughter my childhood days begin utterly unspectacularly, until that fateful day when the aforementioned trumpeter starts to teach me the recorder. It starts in the usual way with Christmas carols, which are followed by recitals at friends’ houses and at school. The “family band” (a zither and four recorders) plays for several years. When my brother switches to percussion, all the rest becomes unnecessary. Then come six years of piano lessons - and I decide not to become a musician. I graduate at the college of arts and crafts, and study art history. Since 1989 I’ve been a freelance textile painter, but still keep an ear on music.
In 1990 my daughter Florentina was born, my son Max in 1991. In 1997, marriage to the artistic director of the Vienna Symphonic Library, and on October 15, 1999 our dog Heidi moves in with us!
The chance to work for the Vienna Symphonic Library gave me the opportunity to find out how good my hearing is and how useful the patience and meticulousness that I learned from arts and crafts are for this line of work.

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: The Vienna Symphonic Library’s team is the best, and I’m really enjoying working in a team after years of working on my own. Apart from which it’s so uplifting to feel that I’m making a contribution to this truly marvelous project.

I inherited my love of music from my mother; my fascination with mouse-clicking and tangles of cables came from my father. So I already had some of the qualifications required for working here. My university course – English and Tibetology – didn’t contain enough music for my liking, so I joined the Vienna university choir and was soon “promoted” to the ensemble the Vienna Vocal Consort (www.vocalconsort.at). To make sure the technician in me wasn’t neglected either I took the sound recorder course at the SAE (School of Audio Engineers), and that made me want to do more. Then a friend from the ensemble told me about the Vienna Symphonic Library and I thought: that’s exactly what I want to do! So, all I had to do was give Paul a quick call, and that was that – here I am...

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: The perfect opportunity for me to increase my knowledge. I can organize my working hours as I want, so everything is possible: studies, ensemble, job and leisure time... no problem! And such a brilliant crew – what more can an editor want?!?

Ten years at music school learning guitar (in Leibnitz, Styria)?Five years in a school band, production of records. Various pop bands. One year at the conservatory in Graz (Styria), nine years studying guitar and sound recording at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna.?Various guitar seminars at home and abroad.

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: An ambitious and truly engrossing project. A team the like of which will not be seen for a long time to come.

• College studies in MultiMediaArt (majoring in audiovisual engineering) in Salzburg. Graduated in 2000.
• Eight years of percussion and three years of composition at the music school Musikschulwerk in Salzburg.
• working with a number of Rockbands, Percussion-Ensembles and young Orchestras
• PC hardware editor on the computer magazine E-Media, 2000-2002
• since 2004 studies composition at a private conservatory in Vienna

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: The Vienna Symphonic Library achieves what every musician who works with instrument samples never even dared to dream of before. I am proud to be able to contribute to the creation of this milestone - or rather, this “mile mountain”.

Born in Osttirol in 1979. Ordinary schooldays including additional violin, viola and piano lessons. Long experience in various orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Studies in sound engineering and singing. Studies in meteorology since fall '04 at the University of Vienna.

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: It's an incredibly interesting and extensive project, but also a big challenge and everlasting learning process. Besides music, there are other interesting topics and questions that pop up as well, like 'How many editing engineers are able to cook in one kitchen at the same time?' Or: "Who has eaten my chocolate bar, which I placed on the table two seconds ago?"

Thanks to my violin studies and subsequent studies to become a sound recordist I developed a good ear, which has proved to be exactly what’s required for the work with the Vienna Symphonic Library. Experience with orchestras and working in teams on recording sessions are also assets which help me to do the job well.

On the Vienna Symphonic Library: Impressive technical and musical standards. Pleasant working atmosphere.