Marital status: married

Nationality: german

Age: 37 (* 1975)

Birthplace: Hamburg

1983 first cello lessons

1987 scholarship by the "Schleswig-Holstein State Music Council",
        teacher:  Gunther Ribke, later Ingo Zander

1989 – 1996 member of  youth orchestra

1992 –  1995 several 1st prices at the  german competition "Jugend Musiziert"

1995 german school exam, new cello teacher: Charles Curtis (solo cellist NDR-Hamburg)

1996 start at university with  Prof. Jörg Metzger at the Wuerzburg University of music

1997 – 2003  solo cellist of the Camerata Wuerzburg

2000 – 2001 praktical training in orchestra at the Nuernberger Symphony Orchestra

2001 Diploma at the  Wuerzburg University of music

since 2002 member of the New Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt

2002 MASTER CLASS  at the Wuerzburg University of music

2002 scholarship for the Idyllwild Music Festival (Californien).

2004 Concert-Diploma

2004 Staatstheater Braunschweig

2005 - 2006  Munich Symphony Orchestra substitute

2005 Solo-Cellist Chamberorchestra Südthüringen

2005 - 2008 substitute at Münchner Symphonikern

2009 substitute at hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt

now: principal solocellist at  Neuen Philharmonie Frankfurt

several concert tours in foreign countrys

CD and radio recordings

master classes with Tillmann Wick, Xenia Jankovic, Christoph Richter, Raphael Wallfisch, Klaus Heitz, Eduard Brunner, John Walz

several chambermusic courses  (quartet, quintet, trio) with the  VOCES QUARTETT (Rumania)