Biography

2022             residence scholarship at Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

2021-2022   studies in the DMA music composition program at UC Santa Cruz, USA

2021             PhD Degree in Musicology from Hochschule für Musik & Theater »Felix Mendelssohn              Bartholdy« Leipzig

2020/21       residence scholarship at Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Germany

2020             residence scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany

2018-2021   PhD bursary by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

2018             six-month scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Science and Cultural Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein

2017            invitation to the Composer’s Workshop of the Lucerne Festical Academy

2016-2017   one-year composition scholarship from the Else-Heiliger-Fonds

2016             three-month composition scholarship from the Culture Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

2015             co-chairman of »forma Leipzig e.V.«

2013-2015   composition scholarship from the Anna-Ruths Stiftung

2013-2015   composition studies (»Meisterklasse«) at the Hochschule für Musik & Theater »Felix  Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, Germany with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

2013            Master of Arts in composition at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland  

2013            fifteen-fold performance of the music theater piece Zurück, zwei Dialoge at the Lucerne Theatre

2012            honorary prize of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

2011            merit-based scholarship of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

2011            Bachelor of Arts in jazz trombone, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

2010            scholarship for the »Adrian Kleinlosen Quintet« of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria

2008-2009   member of the European Masterclass Big Band under the leadership of Peter Herbolzheimer

2006             federal competition of »Jugend Musiziert«

2006-2008   member of the »BuJazzO« (federal youth jazz orchestra of Germany)

2002-2007   member of the »Landesjugendjazzorchester« of the State Schleswig- Holstein

2002-2006   member of the »Landesjugendsinfonieorchester« of the State Schleswig- Holstein  

1987             born on December 23 in Wyk auf Föhr, Germany