...and sometimes a doobadoo, a languishing gaze, were enough to send the listener into a musical labyrinth, without any ache. No, that was high art...

...und manchmal reichte ein Dubadu, ein schmachtender Blick, der die Zuhörer in die musikalische Irre schickte,

ohne dass es wehtat. Nein, das war schon große Kunst... Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten 2015

 

Musical studies in Hamburg (Eicke Funck, Wulfin Lieske, guitar, lectures in composition with Manfred Stahnke and Alfred Schnittke) and Berlin (lute with Nigel North and Elizabeth Kenny).

Since 2002 based in Berlin.

 

Recitals with solo-repertoire for the lute, chamber music and orchestra with international partners.

 

Creating own programs with Artemision Ensemble and Metamorphosen Musiktheater. With the latter iniciator of a series for literatur and music in Berlin.

 

Paticipation on more than 40 Cd´s, for example "Baroque" with Nils Mönkemeyer.

 2007-11 early music teaching at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen (Denmark), since 2013 at HMT Rostock (Germany).

 

Commissions for compositions, like for a chambermusic series at Radio Bremen (Neun Stücke nach Texten von Ingeborg Bachmann, 2001), the Uckermärkische Musikwochen (Die Abenteuer des starken Wanja, Concert for children (2003), or the finnish Encanto-Festival (Thu was du wilt; Narratorium after François Rabelais, 20014). He realized compositions for programs, that combine early and contemporary music (f.e. Salve Regina for Soprano and baroque orchestra (2006), The Arianna Projekt for microtonal instruments (2011) and voice, or Dr. Faustus, semistaged musical happening, (2016).

 2015 he issued a book with his lute music.