born in Waren/Müritz (Germany); Education: 1981 - 87 - University of Music and Theater Leipzig: conducting, composition, piano, 2011 - 14 – Berlin University of the Arts: sound studies; Awards: 1994 - Ferenc-Fricsay-Award of the Radio-Symphony-Orchestra Berlin, 2008 – national winner at the 7th German Orchestra Competition with the Young Symphony Orchestra, Dresden; Engagements: 1988 - 93 – deputy principal conductor at the Musiktheater Görlitz, 1994 - assistant of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 1997 - lectureship at the Berlin University of Arts, musical director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the „C.Ph.E.Bach-Musikgymnasium“ (continuously), 2002 - 11 – lectureship at the Dresden University of Music, musical director of the Young Symphony Orchestra; Sound Art: 2011 - Vier Zeiten Ku'damm - radio publication, 2012 – sound logo for the Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm – study work at Sound Studies, 2014 – External Spaces - The Hidden Sounds of Prims