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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

1996 to 19991st Kapellmeister and deputy GMD THEATER REGENSBURG

2001/02THEATER ST.GALLEN 1st conductor

2002 to 2009STATE THEATER AUGSBURG General Music Director

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

2003 to 2010LEIPZIG OPERA/ GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA Principal Guest Conductor

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

2005AUGSBURGER PHILHARMONIKER  Gustav Mahler 8th Symphony

2011THEATER MAGDEBURG Massenet "Werther"

2011/12NATIONAL OPERA OSLO Mozart “Magicwhistled"

from 2012MUSASHINO ACADEMIA MUSICAE TOKYO  Guest Conductor

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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