born 1973 in Ettenheim/Lahr, Germany
-started to play piano at the age of 9, trumpet at the age of 10 years
-1991-1992 Exchangestudent in Maple Valley, WA, USA
-Workshops and Clinics with Dave Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Kenny Werner, Bobby Shew, Hugh Fraser
-Lessons with Prof. Philippe Hechler in Strasbourg/France at the age of 16, later he studied trumpet at the HfM "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin (1996-2000). Jiggs Whigham and Gerard Presencer were among his teachers
-Member of the German Youth Jazz Orchestra (1996-2000)
-Member of the European Jazz Youth Orchestra 1998
-Concert degree (2003) at the HfM "Hanns Eisler", Berlin
-His most important piano teachers were Nina da Silva (Freiburg) and Hella Walter-Arndt in Berlin, while studying composition (2000-2002) at the HfM "Hanns Eisler"
-Clinician for the State youth Jazz Orchestras of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
-2001 1st prize Gustav Mahler Composition contest Klagenfurt (Austria)
-2002 2nd prize International Bandcontest in Getxo (Spain) with the ensemble "symbiosis"
-2002 3rd prize Composition contest of Lionsclub Berlin
-Has written musical score for the theatre production "Bison & Sons" in Potsdam, Germany
-Trumpeter, pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader of the Variete-show "Pomp, Duck & Circumstance" in Berlin 2001-2006
-Big Band Arrangement for a film concert of Germany's movie "Raumpatrouille Orion" in November 2006
-musical director of comedy show "Shownungslos" by Robert Louis Griesbach
- Compositions for the NDR Radio Big Band, Hamburg 2007
-teaches trumpet, piano, music theory and eartraining at Musikschule Neukölln