Bernhard joined the band in 2002 for the Egypt and West Africa tour. He plays the drums while the previous drummer, Bernd Bechtloff, now devotes himself to percussion.

Bernhard was born on 5th September 1971 and lives in Graz. He began to play the drums at the age of 10. When he was 22 years old, Bernhard spent several months in South America, where he worked with the many styles and rhythms of Latin American music. As well as this, Berhard studied jazz at the Musikhochschule in Graz, where he was taught by Alex Deutsch.

In 1994, Bernhard had success with his own band, Sonic Temple. He won the Styrian NZ band competition and concerts followed all over Austria and even in London. Sonic Temple were also support for names like Bob Dylan and 4 Non Blondes.

Tom Rohm and Bernhard met five years ago and Bernhard has drummed for his band since that time. The band has quite an international flavour - the band leader is from Germany and his group comes from the USA, Slovenia and Austria. Their playlist consists of their own songs as well as covers in the spirit of the sixties. In 1999 the band record a CD called Guitar Generation. (www.tomrohm.com)

Not Just Sundays is a new project with Tom Rohm and the band record a CD live at a concert in Gleisdorf.

In 1999, Bernhard joined the band Simple Man - fronted by Gerhard Überbacher, Hubert's Grenzenlos guitarist and violinist. A year later a recording - as yet unreleased - was made with Simple Man and Mark Murphy.

At the end of 2001, Gerhard Überbacher, Josef Kapfenberger and Bernhard Wimmer founded a new band called G.B.J. Together they make experimental funky music and are preparing themselves for the recording studio some time this year.

www.gbj.at

Photo: Klaus Morgenstern

Bernhard joined Der Berg in 2001. The band plays music which is a mixture of folk music, elements of jazz and classical music. In September the same year, the band recorded seven tracks for the eponymous CD Der Berg.

Five years ago, Bernhard met Juan Carlos Sungurlian in Graz. Since that time he has been playing in his salsa band Montevideo. This is another international band, with the band leader from Uruguay and his band from Austria, Chile, Cuba and Brazil.

Bernhard has also worked with the Styrian Solar Big Band in Eggersdorf and more recently has worked as a musician in the theatre in Graz for the productions of Piaf (2000/01) and Im weissen Rössl (2001/02).

For several years now, Bernhard has worked as a drum teacher in a number of music schools. In 2002 he began teaching drums for jazz and popular music at the music school in Ilz.