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Born 1955 January 8th in Frankfurt/Main.
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Piano lessons beginning in 1961, from 1964 with → Doris Essich. From 1965 cello lessons with → Hans-Wilhelm Kufferath. Beginning in 1969 musical self-study.
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1971-74 apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker and 1974-87 jobs as a joiner-cabinetmaker, master craftman's diploma.
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1987-90 study of musicology (history and arts as subsidiary subjects) at the → Carl von Ossietzky-Universität, Oldenburg, mainly with → Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt and → Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann.
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1988-91 study of composition and piano at the → Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, with → Jens-Peter Ostendorf and → Luciano Ortis.
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Since 1989 participation in different workshops, e.g. Experimental voice techniques at the → Roy Hart Theatre in Malerargues, Frankreich; → Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt 1990 und 1996, etc.
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1990 co-founder and until 1995 chairman of → “oh ton - support of new music in the province“, thus organizer of many concerts in the region of Weser-Ems and co-founder and artistic director of the oh ton-ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music.
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Since 1992 free-lance composer.
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1994 member of the jury for the composition award of the → Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI and the → Gesellschaft für Neue Musik.
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1995 speaker at the → Wiener Sommerseminar für Neue Musik on a grant from the Foreign Ministry.
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1996, 1998, 1999/2000, 2001/02 and 2003/2004 organization of “Response“ projects at two schools in Frankfurt/Main, each together with the cellist → Matthias Lorenz featuring → Helmut Lachenmann's's “temA“, → Cornelius Schwehr's “poco a poco subito“, → Bernd-Alois Zimmermann's “Présence“ and → Frank Gerhardt's “Klaviertrio II“.
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Since 1997 → Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann's assistant and co-editor of „Körper Gesten Klänge – Improvisation, Interpretation und Komposition Neuer Musik am Klavier“ (Saarbrücken 1998), „Mehr als nur Töne – Aspekte des Gestischen in neuer Musik und im Musiktheater“ (Saarbrücken 2003), „Grenzübergänge zwischen Musik, Kunst und den Medien heute“ (Oldenburg 2005) and „Sprache – Sprechen – Spielen – Lernen. Eine kommunikativ-performative Sprachförderung“ (Oldenburg 2009).
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2002 the composition “Sieben kleine Sätze für Geige, Cello und Klavier“ (Seven Little Movemets for violin, cello and piano) is the model for a project called “Invent Music at School“ in Dresden, created by the team of → Matthias Lorenz (cello) and → Johannes Korndörfer (composition).
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2005 Jury at the awards for composition „Dresden 2006 – Klang – Stadt – Stille“ in Dresden.