- 2025: Winner of the 5th International St. Christopher Composition Competition in Vilnius/LITHUANIA (Diploma) for his composition Pareidolia for string orchestra
- 2024 Residency grant at Herrenhaus Edenkoben
- 2023 Nominee BEST MUSIC COMPOSER AWARD at the Independent Days International Filmfest in Karlsruhe/GERMANY for Mortimer and the Vanishings
- 2022 Nominee BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Short) at the International Sound & Film Music Festival in Samobor/Croatia for Mortimer and the Vanishings
- 2022 Scholarship of the Deutscher Musikrat, DMR (Neustart Kultur)
- 2022 Scholarship of the GEMA (Neustart Kultur)
- since October 2021 Lectureship for Instrumentation and Notation at the University of Music Karlsruhe
- 2021 Commissioned composition for the music competition of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI (Cultural Association of German Business)
- 2021 Completion of soloist exam in composition at the University of Music Karlsruhe/GERMANY with Professor Markus Hechtle
- 2020 scholarship of the Freundeskreis of the University of Music Karlsruhe/GERMANY
- 2020 his composition Epigram for violoncello solo was chosen for an online project of the US-American ensemble reNew.
- 2020 1. prize at the Hölderlin Composition Competition of the Literarischen Gesellschaft Karlsruhe for his song Das Angenehme dieser Welt ....
- 2019 his composition Verwandlung for instruments and continuo was chosen for an Australian concert series of the contemporary sextet Concept
- 2019 - 2021 Solistenexamen at the University of Music in Karlsruhe/GERMANY with Professor Markus Hechtle
- 2019 Master degree Composition (Master of Music) at the University of Music in Karlsruhe/GERMANY with Professor Markus Hechtle
- 2018/19: Scholarship of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg
- First publications at Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag and Jetelina Musikverlag
- 2018 his composition Toccata for harpsichord solo was chosen for the 27. International Review of Composers in Belgrade/SERBIA
- 2018 Winner of the Miniature Moth Of May, a Call for Scores by the US-American clarinetist Emily Mehigh for one miniature for clarinet solo
- Scholarship student of the MozartLabor 2017 in Würzburg/GERMANY
- 2017 his composition Threnos for viola solo was chosen for the contemporary music festival "Sound Space" in Saratov/RUSSIA
- 2017 Bachelor degree Composition (Bachelor of Music) at the University of Music in Karlsruhe/GERMANY with Professor Markus Hechtle
- 2016 his composition Trifle for clarinet solo was chosen for a US-American concert series of the ensemble A Very Small Consortium
- 3rd prize at the 4th international Composition Competition of the City of Homburg/Saar 2015, for his composition Groteske for alto saxophone and orchestra
- since April 2015 Composition classes (BA) at the University of Music Karlsruhe with Professor Markus Hechtle
- 2015 two of his compositions were chosen for US-American concert series: Trifle for bassoon solo - Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame and Medium for violin and grand piano - Aquila Summer Concert Series in Greeley, Colorado.
- 1. Prize at the "call for scores" competition by the Bowling Green State University Ensemble in Ohio, 2014/15, for "In die Ferne" - Hommage à Giacinto Scelsi
- Participant of the 1. Düsseldorfer composers fair 2013
- Scholarship student of the Richard Wagner scholarship foundation 2013
- since 2011 Composition and music theory lessons for adolescents
- since 2010 Refocusing of studies around Composition classes (KA) with Claus Kühnl at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory. Compositions and arrangements for chamber music, orchestra and short films
- 2009 Studies of Instrumental and Voice pedagogy (IGP), majoring in Viola with Hiltrud Hampe, at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt/ Germany
- First violin in the Stamitz-Orchestra Mannheim under the direction of Prof. Klaus Eisenmann and the Starkenburg Philharmoniker, Viernheim, under the direction of Günther Stegmüller
- 2007 - 2008 Pre-College (SVA) at the music school Darmstadt, violin and viola classes with Regine Neubert
- 2006 - 2007 Piano classes with Anna Korbut
- 2004 - 2008 Member of the viola section of the Collegium Musicum Bergstraße under the direction of Volker Seitz and Michael Kopylevych
- since 2003 Work on own compositions; Arrangements and compositions for the school orchestra, various associations and private persons
- 1998 - 2007 violin classes with Monica Brecht, Jugendmusikschule Überwald-Weschnitztal, since 2006 also viola classes
- born on December 10th 1987 in Weinheim (Bergstraße)
- Master Classes - among others with Dieter Ammann, Nikolaus Brass, Chaya Czernowin, Dietrich Eichmann, Arnulf Herrmann, Jochen Kuhn, Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn and Manos Tsangaris
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