welcome to the official website of composer, arranger and sound designer Alex Pfeffer

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Fringe

one of my tracks is currently being used on the german tv station Pro7 for the upcoming episode 19 (LSD) of season 3 of the very successful FOX tv show “Fringe”

Albion

By order of Spitfire Audio, I had the honor to compose a demo for the recently released orchestral library “Albion.
Check out my official demo “Feel the Steam”!

Feel the Steam by alexpfeffer

Epic Taiko Ensemble

By order of 8Dio, the new sample library production company of award winning composer Troels Folmann, I was able to contribute a demo for the new upcoming library “Epic Taiko Ennsemble”. Check out “Tsukiyomi”!

Tsukiyomi by alexpfeffer

Klitschko vs. Haye

my music has been featured several times during the boxing match “Klitschko vs Haye” on the Germany tv station RTL!

So You Think You Can Dance

my music from the album “Burn This City” has been featured on the US tv show “So You Think You Can Dance”!

R.E.D.

my music has been featured in the french TV/DVD trailer of the movie “R.E.D.”, starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and many others …

Crysis 2

Dynamedion teamed up with Borislav Slavov and Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer to produce the Soundtrack for CRYSIS 2. By order of Dynamedion I was additionally composing music and very happy to be part of the production of this awesome new video game by Crytek!

I, Predator

By order of Dynamedion, my music has been used as the intro theme on the show “I, Predator” on Discovery Channel!

Alex was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1975.
At the age of twelve he showed great interest in rock and guitar music, spent lots of time watching MTV’s “Headbanger’s Ball” and finally, at the age of 14, decided to buy his first electric guitar.

After five years of private guitar lessons with guitar teacher Joachim Rothe, Alex met his first band, which had by far more poser photo albums done over the time, than gigs or even songs.

A few years and bands later in 1997, he decided to take one more year of private guitar lesson with guitar teacher Thomas Dill and prepared himself to study at the Los Angeles Music Academy.

 

This was by far the most intensive time in terms of music and it was such a pleasure to jam with teachers such as Frank Gambale, Bill Fowler, Jeff Richman, Joy Basu, Linda Taylor, Jean-Marc Belkadi and many more …

Alex graduated in September of 1998, came back to Germany and worked as a private guitar teacher for around two years.

Besides teaching he became the lead guitarist in the rock/pop band “Reinvented”. After winning several music and band contests, the band got signed with the record label BMG, recorded and released one album and several singles and toured all over Germany with bands such as Reamonn, Guano Apes, H-Blockx, Glow, LAW and many others …

Especially during the studio recording sessions with the band, Alex was carried away by computers, sequencers, plugins, sample libraries and VSTi’s.

… so which first was the little home studio to record and work on upcoming “Reinvented” songs in Alex’s basement, should later become his project studio “the cellarroom”, where he started to work as a composer and sound designer for video games.

Since Alex was nine years old he was into computer games and so he decided to mix up the “seriousness” of work together with his hobby and the interest in music. The result was a composer and sound designer for video games.

Let your hobby become your job is probably the best thing which can happen.

“Reinvented” split up in 2003, Alex moved to Munich and already worked on quite a few little video games but also other multimedia projects. Finally, in 2005 Alex joined Dynamedion, Germany’s leading sound design company for video games.

In late 2005, Alex moved to Hamburg, Germany.

In 2009 Alex met german producer Frank Peterson (Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Gregorian and many others) and started arranging and co-writing for him.

Until today he has been working on award winning video games, movie and game trailers, sample library demos and lots of other multimedia projects.

“Alex has provided many excellent demos for our products, which are used by top music, film, tv, and games composers worldwide. He is one of the most gifted composers in our business, and we are honored to have him representing our work.”
Doug Rogers, Producer – East West/Quantum Leap

“The music demos that Alex has composed for ProjectSAM are among the best we have ever received.”
Maarten Spruijt, Creative Director – Project SAM

“Magic Taborea was our first song with orchestra. We love the powerful and exciting arrangement Alex did for us and were totally blown away by the final result. We surely will try to launch another “metal a cappella plus orchestra”-hymn in the future together with Alex.”
Stefan – Van Canto”

“Alex’s talents as a versatile composer made him a great choice to compose a demo for Heavyocity’s Evolve Mutations 2. He really impressed us with an engaging and dynamic composition that really showed off the library’s potential.”
Neil Goldberg – Heavyocity Media

“For our last two major library releases we have asked Alex to compose product demo tracks for our website. We have found him to be able to compose in a way that features our product in an organic, unforced context at a extremely high level of production. Tracks such as these are meant to be examined by the community to the “N”th degree, yet we always feel confident while presenting Alex’s work.”
Mike Barry, Mike Patti – Cinesamples

“Strong music clashes with over-the-top character acting.”
Battalion Wars 2 – music review: Matt Casamassina – IGN

“Alex´ musical skills and professionalism are undisputed.”
Peter Siedlaczek, Giorgio Tommasini – Sample Modeling

“We have been absolutely delighted with Alex’s score for the cinematic sections of Battalion Wars 2; easily the strongest of the candidates who pitched for this work, he brought a sweeping, dramatic feel and the impression of a full orchestra to the project with fine results.”
Tancred Dyke-Wells, Creative Director – KUJU

“The game’s music is – naturally – cinematic and has a wonderful Asian feel to it.”
John Woo’s “Stranglehold” – music review: Nick Valentino, Game Zone

“…and the score is beautifully orchestrated and dynamic”
Battleforge – music review: Daniel Shannon, Gamespot





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