He worked regularly with composers such as György Ligeti, George Crumb, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Eötvös and many composers of the younger Generation. International concert appearances on wellknown music-festivals as soloist, piano-duet-player, with singers and as a chambermusic partner in Europe, North-America, Ukraine, Mexico, Brasil, Ghana, Russia, South-Corea and Japan. As member of the “Stuttgarter Klavier-Duo”, which became well-known through performings of “Visions de l´Amen” by Olivier Messiaen and other important compositions for two pianos. As founder of the ensemble “piano & percussion” – a special ensemble for two pianos and percussion – and as member of several other ensembles for contemporary music he has performed numerous premieres. A row of new compositions are written for him and his ensembles. His wide repertory ranges from Barock until todays time. He played concerts at Ligeti-Festival Amsterdam, “Eurocentric” Toronto, Biennale Munich, Musica Straßbourg, Schwetzinger Festspiele and many other international festivals of music.
He regular plays and records in the SWR Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester and SWR-Vocal-Ensemble Stuttgart. 2003 he was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist in “Atlantis” by Peter Eötvös. Radio- and CD-recording activities in Germany and abroad. He has given lecture-recitals, workshops and masterclasses at Universities of Music in Germany, Austria, Italy, Norway, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Russia (Gnessin-Academy Moscow), Ghana, Japan and Brasil.
Currently he is professor for piano solo and chamber music at the University of Music in Karlsruhe/Germany. Beside his career as a pianist he worked more than 30 years as a piano-teacher with children and successfully supported young people to become professional musicians in the music-school in Ostfildern near Stuttgart.
In 2008 he was creator and artistic director of the “Internationale Messiaen Woche 2008” in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse as well as the festival “Messiaen 100” at University of Music Karlsruhe in Germany in the same year. Both festivals were dedicated to the 100th birthday of Olivier Messiaen.
In same year he performed the world-premier of Adriana Hölszky´s “Countdown” at the Musica-Viva-Festival in Munich and was invited to perform at the Heinrich-Neuhaus-Festival in Moskau.
In 2015 appeared at the label NEOS in 2015 his recording of “Makrokosomos I and II “ by George Crumb. 2023 He performed together with Magdalena Cerezo Stockhausen´s “Mantra” in a double performance with Yue Zou and Daria Vorontsova- two students of his class at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, followed by several performings of Beethoven´s “Diabelli-Variations” in 2024/25.
In Karlsruhe beside teaching he collaborated over 10 years as an organizer of numerous interdisciplinary musical events for the students of the University of Music in the State Art Hall Karlsruhe together with the splendid young pianist and music – and art – scientist Prof. Dr. Anna Zassimova.
