Born in Straubing

• Studied piano, clarinet and conducting at the University of Music and Theater in Munich

• Winner of the "International Weber Competition" for clarinet in Warsaw

• Scholarship for the orchestra seminar of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

• Clarinettist with the Berliner Symphoniker

• Participation in master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache

• Bavarian State Advancement Award for Young Conductors (1994)
   

1991 THEATER REGENSBURG Solo répétiteur

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1996 to 19991st Kapellmeister and deputy GMD THEATER REGENSBURG

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2001/02THEATER ST.GALLEN 1st conductor

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2002 to 2009STATE THEATER AUGSBURG General Music Director

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2002LEIPZIG OPERA/ GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA Debut of Strauss' “Rosenkavalier"

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2003 to 2010LEIPZIG OPERA/ GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA Principal Guest Conductor

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2004SALZBURG FESTIVAL HOUSE/ MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA Strauss´ "Salome"

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2005AUGSBURGER PHILHARMONIKER  Gustav Mahler 8th Symphony

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2011THEATER MAGDEBURG Massenet "Werther"

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2011/12NATIONAL OPERA OSLO Mozart “Magicwhistled"

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from 2012MUSASHINO ACADEMIA MUSICAE TOKYO  Guest Conductor

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since 2014ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE BRETAGNE/ Rennes - OPÉRA ROUEN Haut-Normandie Beginning of a close collaboration in opera and concerts as a guest conductor (Wagner "Lohengrin", Bellini "Norma", Wagner "Tannhäuser" and "Holländer", Prokofiev "Romeo et Juliette" and others)

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2020 MarchORQUESTRA SINFÔNICA de PORTO ALEGRE South American debut – postponed indefinitely

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2020 September/NovemberOPÉRA ROUEN (OOR), WAGNER “TANNHÄUSER” – postponed indefinitely

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2021 November/DecemberMUSASHINO ACADEMIA MUSICAE TOKYO Ravel La Valse, Brahms Haydn Variations op.56a,  Bruckner Symphony No. 7

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2022 April/May/JuneGRAND THÉÂTRE ANGERS Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" with further performances at the OPÉRA GRASLIN NANTES and the OPÉRA DE RENNES,NATIONAL ORCHESTRA PAYS DE LA LOIRE

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2022 August to present Head of the BUNDESWEHR MOUNTAIN MUSIC CORPS in GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN.