Biography
Born in Lichtenstein in 1980, he studied orchestral music, music education and free improvisation at the conservatoires in Leipzig and Weimar, specialising in the trombone. Since 2006, he has been principal bass trombonist in the orchestra of the Musikalische Komödie at the Leipzig Opera; since then, he has also held part-time positions including as a member of the orchestra’s executive committee, artistic advisory board and board of the Friends and Supporters of the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig e. V. He works as a freelancer in the field of contemporary music, having taken part in around 150 world premieres, and as a composer, specialising in chamber music, art songs and choral works. Since 2007, he has been active in musicology and journalism, and since 2021 has focused in particular on the history of operetta in Leipzig. Publications include works with Pfau-Verlag in Saarbrücken, Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag in Berlin-Leipzig and Passage-Verlag in Leipzig (Leipziger Blätter). In 2023, curator and author of the exhibition »From the New Operetta Theatre to the Musikalische Komödie« at the Leipzig City Archives. Lectures have been given at, amongst others, the University of Leipzig, the Leipzig City Archives, the Ariowitsch-Haus Cultural Centre, the Alte Nikolaischule, the Musikalische Komödie and the Chemnitz Music Society.