Born 1970 in Saarbruecken, Germany.
1989-1995 Student at the Karlsruhe University of Music. Majors: Piano (with Prof. Guenter Reinhold), composition (with Prof. Walter Zimmermann and Prof. Wolfgang Rihm.
Dissertation about Morton Feldman's "Piano and Stringquartet".

1993-1994 Student at the Seoul National University (Composition with Prof. Sukhi Kang, and at the department for Korean Traditional Music) as a scholarship holder of the Germany's most respected scholarship ("Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes").
1995-1998 Master student at the Berlin University of Arts (Composition with Prof. Walter Zimmermann. Participation in Master classes for Pianists of Elza Kolodin, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, and Prof. Peter Feuchtwanger.

Scholarships and Awards:
Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes". Korea-scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes". Scholarship of the "Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung" of the Suedwestfunk. Award of the Mikhashoff Trust for New Music 1998. Award of the Ernst-von-Siemens-Stiftung for the Studio 99 Berlin Contribution of the International Stefan-Wolpe-Society for the CD Four Generations. Award of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Concerts as a pianist and performances of his pieces in Europe, Korea and the USA
Many premieres of works by Roland Aley, Josef Matthias Hauer, Markus Hechtle, Thomas Kessler, Yong-shil Park, Andreas Raseghi, Walter Zimmermann, Stefan Bartling, Nils Günther  and others.

Teacher at master classes, Academies, and Universities in Germany, Korea, and the USA. Since 2004 Lecturer at the Seoul National University and at other Korean Universities.

CDs: Four Generations (hat[now]ART 139) with pieces of Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman, Walter Zimmermann, and Daniel N. Seel Contributions on several CDs with Contemporary Music (Works of Roland Aley, Yong-shil Park, and Manbang Yi)

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