Personal Notes:

Date of Birth: 26.06.1967

Place of Birth: Erlangen, Germany

Married

Nationality: German, British

Languages: German, English, Italian

Qualifications:

Conductor, coach of singers, pianist

Studies of conducting and piano:

  • Meistersinger Conservatory Nuremberg (conducting with Werner Andreas Albert)
  • University of Freiburg (piano with Prof. Vitaly Margulis)
  • The Juilliard School New York (conducting with Otto Werner Müller)
  • Private studies with Christoph Eschenbach, Ulrich Weder, Frank Cramer and Georg Schmöhe

Engagements:

1998 – 1999   State Opera Nuremberg, coach
1999 – 2005   State Theatre Innsbruck, assistant of the music director, conductor and coach
2005 – 2008   Theatre Erfurt, “Kapellmeister” and chief coach
2003 – 2006   music director of the Tirol Ensemble for New Music
2007   Theatre Lübeck, guest conductor with the opera “göttliche Tivoli” of Per Norgard
since 2001   International Academia Collegium Musicum Pommersfelden, principal guest conductor
2008   Debut at the Zürich Festival with the orchestra “Collegium Novum Zürich”
since 2008   Theatre Bern, Switzerland, First ”Kapellmeister”

2009

 

Debut with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra at the International Mozart Festival

2010

 

Debut with the “Niederschlessische” State Orchestra in Jelenia Gora, Poland