Curriculum Vitae
born in Munich
first piano lessons aged three and first cello lessons at the age of five
2001 to 2004 King’s College London (Bachelor of Music)
baroque cello studies with Alison McGillivray,
viola da gamba with Jonathan Manson
2004 to 2006 Royal Academy of Music London
(Master of Music in Performance and Research)
viola da gamba & baroque cello studies with Jonathan Manson
additional baroque cello lessons with Jennifer Ward-Clarke
2006 to 2008 Hochschule für Musik Köln (Master)
viola da gamba & baroque cello studies with Rainer Zipperling
since 2008 internationally active as cellist and viol-player
with L’Orfeo Barockorchester (Linz), The Wallfisch Band (London), L’Arte del Mondo (Cologne), Wiener Akademie (Vienna), La Banda (Augsburg) et al. wokring with conductors such as Gustav Leonhardt, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Michi Gaigg, Laurence Cummings, Fabio Bonizzoni and Shunske Sato
appearances as soloist alongside Elizabeth Wallfisch, Simon Standage, Amandine Beyer, Riccardo Minasi, Andrea Guttmann, Gerhart Darmstadt, Roland Götz, Daniela Niedhammer et al.
Concerts in Cologne (Philharmonie), London (Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, Barbican), Utrecht, The Hague, Bruxelles, Paris, Madrid, Pamplona, Bozen, Rom, Basel, Lucerne, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Istanbul, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tainan…
2011 to 2016 teaching assignment at the LMU München
2011 to 2015 King’s College London (PhD)
doctoral studies supervised by Cliff Eisen
title of doctoral thesis: “The Mozart Family and Empfindsamkeit:
Enlightenment and Sensibility in Salzburg 1750–1790″
2011 to 2014 teaching assignment at the Royal Academy of Music London
2015 to 2022 musical director of the Vokal Ensemble München
2018 teaching assignment at the Universität Augsburg
since 2025 Professor of Historical Performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
