Musical Education: mostly self-educated and with the help of organ lessons by Mr. Jürgen Gebhardt, in Lübeck. Choral conductoring schooling given by choir director and teacher Kurt Hassner using the textbook by Kurt Thomas, Leipzig. He attended further choir director seminars with Prof. Gerd Müller-Lorenz. For more than 30 years, he has been a voluntary organist and choir director. At present, he's a organist and choir director of two active choirs.