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Curriculum vitae

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Prizes and Awards↓

2013

world premiere of the opera ORLANDO at the Theatre Bielefeld

2012

participation in the "Inter-Tertiary Young Composers Platform" in Hong Kong

2011/12

Scholarship by the International Ensemble Modern Academy, Frankfurt

2010–2012

Scholarship by the Academy "Musiktheater heute" of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Frankfurt

Since 2010

Master studies in electronic music at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin, further cultural and media studies e. g. with Norbert Bolz and Thomas Macho at HU and TU Berlin

2010

founder of the Berlin concert series SCHWELBRAND

2009/10

diploma thesis about "How does virtuosity originate?"

2008

Within the scope of an exchange project residence at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris, classes with Frédéric Durieux and Stefano Gervasoni

Since 2007

increasing activity as piano and keyboard improviser

2007

participation in the composition masterclass "voix nouvelles" of Fondation Royaumont, directed by Brian Ferneyhough

2004–2010

Studies at the Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin, composition with Hanspeter Kyburz, electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger (Diplom 2010)

2002/03

Studies of mathematics and history of science at Regensburg University

2002

Abitur (A-Level)

1999–2001

Studies in composition with Dieter Acker at the Academy of Music and Drama in Munich

1997–2001

participation in the annual "Treffen junger Komponisten" (Young Composers' Meetings) of Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland at Weikersheim castle

From 1997

supraregional concerts as a pianist

1991–2002

violinist in several Bavarian and Austrian orchestras

1989

beginning of piano training

1987

Beginn des Violinunterrichts, erste Kompositionen

1983

born in Trostberg/Germany


Prizes and Awards (Selection)

2010

Third Prize at the Mahler composition contest of the Austrian Composers' Society

2010

Second Prize at the International Composition Competition of MusikTriennale Cologne

2008

Finalist at the TREMPLIN-Projekt of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris

2007

Second Prize at the International Composition Competition "In memoriam György Ligeti"

2007

Scholarship by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

2007

second prize at the Hanns Eisler Award for composition and interpretation of contemporary music

2002–2008

Scholarship by the Bavarian State

1999

second prize at the composition competition of the Robert Schumann Society Dusseldorf