I was born 1971 in Marl and live in Germany. I started
playing piano at the age of 11 œ and studied music in Cologne at the
"Musikhochschule". I am
currently a teacher at a
"Gymnasium" (secondary school) teaching the
subjects "German" and "Music".
My first concert, which was played only by myself, was an evening with only
compositions of my own (mainly for piano, but also for flute traversiere) in
1988.
I began studying music in 1989 at the "Musikhochschule Köln" as a
"young student" (with 17 years). I studied composition, first in the
class of Jürg Baur (*1918), later in the class of Krzysztof Meyer (*1943).
After my school-leaving examination I decided to study music and germanic
philology for becoming a teacher at secondary school. In this context I studied
piano in the class of Prof. Klaus Oldemeyer at the "Musikhochschule
Köln", who was a very good teacher!
I made my State examination in 1998 and in this context also as a part of this
examination in piano.
The piano was always my favorite instrument (even at the age of seven I started
to learn the guitar). I played in several concerts until now.
My repertoire contains mainly works from the following composers until now:
Bach (Well tempered piano-book, Goldberg-variations, Italian Concerto, English
and French Suites, Inventions, Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue), Scarlatti
(Sonatas), Mozart (Sonatas and Fantasies), Haydn (Sonatas), Beethoven (Sonatas,
"Die Wut über den verlorenen Groschen"), Brahms, Liszt (mainly
Annees de pelerinage), Chopin (Etudes, Ballads, Scherzi, Mazurken, Walzer and
more), Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (mainly Songs without Words), Schumann
(Kinderszenen and much more), Schuber (Sonatas, Impromptus, Moments musiceaux),
Rachmaninof (some Preludes), Prokofief (diabolique suggestions), Scriabin
(mainly Etudes until now, but I like also the Mazurkas and Preludes),
Mussorgsky (Pictures of an exhibition), Debussy (Preludes, Petite Suite),
Chatchaturjan (Toccata), Ravel (Jeux d´eaux), Saint-Saens, Cesar Franck,
Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Solo and four hands), Janacek (On the owergrown
path), Schönberg, Jellinek.
Several times in the 1980’s I visited the "International Musicians
Seminar" in Cornwall (England) and the master classes of Sandor Vegh
and Andras Schiff, which were dedicated to chamber music.
In 1985 I won two
prizes in the composition-competition of the Clara-Schumann Musikschule in
Düsseldorf, for my compositions "Präludium" and "Fantasie"
for piano.
In my school I regularly organize concerts, one of which is dedicated to
chamber music. I am also a conductor of our school-orchestra.