1962 born
in Berlin
1982 final examination
Studies
1985-1989 composition with Friedhelm Döhl and 'general music education'
at the conservatory Lübeck, classical saxophone with Detlef Bensmann at
the conservatory, Berlin
1989-1993 composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the conservatory Stuttgart
and classical saxophone in Berlin
Examina
1989 final examination 'general music education'
1992 final examination in composition
1993 final diploma in saxophone
Activities
1987-1989 teaching position for conducting “Ensemble Neue Musik”
at the conservatory Lübeck
1987-1989 artisitc director and management of the concert series “Gesprächskonzerte
im Künstlerzentrum”, Lübeck
1990-1992 artisitc director and management of the concert series“Neue
Musik im Kulturzentrum Mitte”, Stuttgart
1992-1994 teaching position for saxophone/didactics at the 'Hamburger
Konservatorium'
1993 founding of the ensemble Intégrales
1994-1996 chairman of the department music didactics general musical
education at the 'Staatliche Jugendmusikschule Hamburg'
1996-2000 composing the chamber opera “Lancelots Spiegel”
1997-2001 chairman of the department composition/new music at the 'Staatlichen
Jugendmusikschule Hamburg'
1997-2001 artistic director and management of the concert series“ZeitZeichen”
in cooperation with the conservatory Hamburg and of the festival “ZeitMusik-StadtMusik”
Grants and Awards
1989 compositions
prize of the ‘Ensemble Modern’
1990 bursary for Hungary of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
1991 bursary of the ‘Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung’ (SWR)
1992 bursary of the 'Kulturstiftung Stormarn'
1994 prize of the compositions competition ‘Sax+X’, Berlin
1998 bursary of the City Hamburg
2000 ‘Bach-Prize-stipend’ of the City Hamburg
2000 admission to the “Edition of Contemporary Music” of the
'Deutscher Musikrat' (portrait CD, released in October 2002)
2000/2001 selected for the opera lab of the 'Hamburgische Staatsoper'
2002 ‘Response’-project, Hamburger Musikfest
2002 bursary of the 'university for music and theater Graz' in the course
of the ‘Johann-Josef-Fux- opera composition competition’ for ‘Lancelots
Spiegel’
2003 comission for ‘Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemäße
Musik”
2003 1st prize af the international Johann-Josef Fux Competition for
Opera Writing" for "Lancelot's Spiegel". The opera was premiered
at the festival "Steirischer Herbst 2003". CD available at label KUG
2004 music theater-comission for ‘Eclat 2004’, Stuttgart
radio productions of own works at the WDR, SWR, SR, NDR, DRS, ORF