About
Got in touch with music in early childhood.
Attended Music School in Villach at the age of 6.
Education in Classic and Electric Guitar for 12 years at Music School Villach.
Studies for Jazz Guitar Diploma as well as Pedagogic Diploma at Carinthian State Conservatory Klagenfurt – now GMPU. Passed both studies with distinction.
Erasmusyear at HfMT Cologne.
Bachelor of Music Studies at HfMT Hamburg. Passed with distinction.
Master of Arts Studies at MUK Private University Vienna. Passed with distinction.
Winner of the Gironcoli Prize (recognition award).
Since 2020 Raphael Käfer is working as a freelance musician.
2021 he has released his debut album “Retrospection” (feat. Tobias Pustelnik - Sax, Urs Hager - Piano, Philipp Zarfl - Bass, Matheus Jardim - Drums) by the Austrian label ATS Records.
Since 2021 part of the faculty for Guitar at the VMI – Vienna Music Institute.
"Doch was jedoch besonders hervorzuheben ist, ist das fast seidene Gitarrenspiel von Käfer. Zugleich suggerieren die Sequenzen, die der Gitarrist vorträgt, Weite und einen ungehinderten Blick." (Jazz Halo)
"Der Sound, den Bandleader Raphael Käfer und seine Kollegen erschaffen, ist einer, in dem es vor packenden Melodien, waghalsigen virtuosen Soli, überraschenden Wendungen und Brüchen, eigenwilligen Experimenten und spannungsgeladenen Aufbauten nur so wimmelt, in dem der gediegene smoothe und elegante Klang ebenso dargeboten wird wie auch der hochgradig energiegeladene." (Mica Austria)