Bernhard is a bass player, composer, arranger, producer and performer. Besides his activities as a sideman for a wide spectrum of genres and bands, he is currently mainly focusing on original music and own projects. His interest lies in a genre-fluid mix of styles and combines elements of his trained background as a jazz bass player with a progressive and contemporary attitude, which pushes himself into unknown territory; as a bass player as well as, as a composer, producer and performer.

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In 2009, Hollinger received the "emerging artist"-award of the Jazzfestival Ingolstadt; in 2019 the "Sonderpreis der Schule für Dichtung" at the ORF Hörspiel-Gala for the track "Feminismus im Dunkeln", which he produced together with Vienna-based spoken word artist Fräulein Hahnkamper; Hollinger contributed two tracks to the production HTPYIES ("How to protect your internal ecosystem") by Mimu Merz and Miriam Schmidtke, which received the award for "Best audio book" by the ORF in 2020.

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Check out Bernhard's Current Projects and Discography.