1966 *Hamburg
1972 piano training
Studies in composition
1990-96 with Ulrich Leyendecker and Manfred Stahnke at Hochschule für Musik, Hamburg
1993-94 with James MacMillan at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
1997-98 with Nils Vigeland at Manhattan School of Music, New York
Artistic work
1992-2026 concerts and residencies in Europe, USA, Latin America / broadcasts on SDR, NDR, Dlf Kultur, BR
2012-26 Focus on spatial compositions, pure tuning, overtones
2018-26 Elaboration of concepts of collective composing
2005-26 Founder and artistic director of klub katarakt, a festival for experimental music and audiovisual art located at Kampnagel in Hamburg. klub katarakt presents music of its members as well as of local and international guests
2006-26 Member of Nelly Boyd, a composers‘ collective that performs – apart from their own pieces – repertoire pieces and commissions by composers which are inspiring and exemplary to them. Concerts and recordings with Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Rhys Chatham.
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2025 Residency at FRISE Künstler*innenhaus Hamburg for the development of an audiovisual installation in collaboration with austrian light artist Stefanie Wilhelm
2023 Composition Grant, Musikfonds
2022 Research Grant from GEMA for a study on piano resonance influenced by the sostenuto pedal
2021 FEB Grant for the development of a method of collective composition
2020 reload Grant from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, in collaboration with Nelly Boyd
2015 Hamburg Ministry of Culture: travel/residency grant New York
2008 Composer in Residence of the french-german Academy Opus XXI, Avignon
2007 Bach Prize Scholarship, Hamburg
2001 Residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas
1999 Residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
1998 Nicolas Flagello Award, NYC
1997 DAAD Scholarship for a one-year study residency in New York
1996 1st prize in the composition competition Hitzacker
Selected Collaborations as Composer
Quatuor Bozzini, Ju-Ping Song, Ensemble Resonanz, Nelly Boyd, Ensemble mise-en, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Selected Collaborations as Performer
Phill Niblock, Charles Curtis/La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Matthias Kaul, Rhys Chatham, Makino Takashi, Andrea Parkins
Selected Concerts / Festivals / Performances
Issue Project Room, New York / Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln / Royal Festival Hall, London / Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker / Musica Festival, Strasbourg / blurred edges, Hamburg / New York Contemporary Music Festival / Festival de la Musica contemporanéa, Bogotá / Staatstheater Mannheim / Unerhörte Musik, Berlin / Kampnagel, Hamburg / Visual Sounds, Köln / Hangar Bicocca, Milano / Efes Amphitheater Turkey / Museum of Arts and Design, New York / La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon / Bozar, Brüssel / MaerzMusik, Berlin / St. Merry, Paris / Akademie der Künste, Hamburg / KM28, Berlin
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