| 1992 | Placed 3rd in composition competition "Jugend komponiert" (young composers) in Germany |
| 1996 | Performance of Dialektisches Werk in the context of the 50th anniversary of the federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Neuss, Germany |
| 2005 | Winner of the Hochschulwettbewerb der Rektorenkonferenz der Musikhochschulen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (competition of the music academies in Germany) for Laced, performed at the Music Academy of Hamburg, Germany |
| July 2008 | Winner of the international composition contest "Schubert und die Moderne" of the Univerity of performed arts, Graz with 2 -- 1 for violin and piano. |
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| 1995 - 2001 | Studies of musicology, computer science and philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany |
| 1998 - 1999 | Grafix-engine software development at the BEC |
| 1997 - 1998 | Assistant teaching at the department of musicology (University of Bonn) in harmony and counterpoint |
| 2000 - 2002 | Software-development at the department of computer science
(Prof. Michael Clausen, University of Bonn) |
| 2001 | Diploma of computer science (specialization: Audio Signal Processing;
Theme of thesis: Automatic Harmonic Analysis of Chorals in the style of J.S.Bach) |
| 2001 - 2005 | Studies of composition with Prof. York Höller, piano with Prof. Klaus Oldemeyer as well as
Harmony and Counterpoint with Prof. Friedrich Jaecker at the Academy of Music Cologne in Germany. |
| 2003 - 2004 | Research and software-development at the FGAN in the area of
target tracking of extended objects and convois (radar systems)/ Clustering |
| Since 10/2005 | Working as a Researcher on my Ph.D. at the
LSV (Department for Spoken Language Systems) at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, with Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow. |
| Since 11/2005 | Further studies in composition with Prof. Theo Brandmüller at the Academy of Music, Saarland, Germany |
| 2000-2004 | Working as a composer and programmer for an aerial dance group ,
see music-link to the left. |
