NEW: Chamber quintet "Quid est homo" - listen and download!
I was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda in 1957. I studied mathematics and currently work as a software developer. I took piano lessons from 1962 to 1978, between 1969 and 1978 at the Julius-Stern-Institut Berlin (now part of the Berlin University of the Arts), where I was taught music theory and aural training as well.
At present I live in Cologne.
My "Cardenal Psalms" were performed in Cologne with Marianne Hutmacher in 1995, and again in Böblingen in 2007 (psalms 130 and 148). Also in 2007, my "Magnificat" for five-part chamber choir was performed at the Evangelische Kirchentag in Cologne. Another work already presented in public is "Ezekiel 37" for cello and piano. This was composed between 1989 and 1992, with performances in Berlin and Cologne.
On 23 September 2012, two lieder based on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poems "Der Kelch" and "Du, weißt du" premiered in Cologne at a lieder and poetry recital.
- 2014: Participation in the Diabelli Contest with "IRINI-AGAPI" for piano solo. It did not win a prize, but has been performed in September 2015 in Leverkusen.
- 2016: Participation in the Diablli Contest with "MIRACULUM MAXIMUM" for choir, a musical interpretation of the Wessobrunn prayer.
- 2016: First performances of the musical setting "Beatitudines" in Köln and Düsseldorf in the context of a project "DIE HIMMEL DER ERDE" ("The Heavens of Earth"). It was about compositions for choir about the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". More informations on the site of the chamber choir Kammerchor Cantamo: http://www.cantamo.de .
- 2018: Third participation in a contest - the Carl Orff Competition with "RAIZERAYA", a musical setting of a fragment of the poem "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes" by Rainer Maria Rilke for soprano, harp and frame drum.

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