About me

I am a composer, music producer, and arranger working at the intersection of pop music, contemporary composition, and applied music. My work combines atmospheric density with melodic clarity and deliberately moves between comprehensibility and experimentation.

Influenced by classical training, pop production, and interdisciplinary projects, I develop music and sounds for stage, spaces, audiovisual media, and new formats. My particular strength lies in combining complex musical and organizational processes to transform ideas into independent works with an expressive sound language.

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Since my earliest childhood, music has been the object of a strong inner creative urge. I searched for my own soundscapes, improvised, composed, and experimented—mostly self-taught and across genres. I learned to play piano and guitar, later charango, and used the instruments to explore new possibilities of musical expression.

I grew up surrounded by very different musical worlds: my father's hard rock records, musical songs from my brother's room, Beethoven symphonies on my grandfather's Discman, and the alternative rock and crossover I listened to with friends. This diversity continues to shape my musical language today – as does my interest in combining seemingly contrasting styles.

I am interested in the connection between seemingly contradictory musical worlds.

Even during piano lessons as a child, I quickly put the sheet music aside and began improvising and transcribing my own pieces. This developed into a twin track that continues to define my work today: classical composition on the one hand, music production on the other. During my school years, I composed for chamber ensembles, orchestras, and jazz combos, and in the following years, I released singles and two EPs with my band Tonic Tales, ranging from progressive metal to alternative pop and film music.

This versatility continued during my studies. In my bachelor's degree in music design at the Trossingen University of Music, I combined free artistic work with applied music. My master's degree in popular music at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg deepened my focus on music production and composition for pop contexts. In my master's thesis, I examined the influence of artificial intelligence on music production—a topic that continues to accompany my exploration of contemporary production methods to this day.

In terms of content, I work at the intersection of pop music, contemporary composition, and applied music. My work is characterized by atmospheric density, melodic catchiness, and a conscious interplay between comprehensibility and experimentation.

How can I develop new forms of expression without losing the emotional accessibility of music?

A pivotal project in my career to date is the stage format "NONAME – Fragments of a Summer" (2022). Over a period of two and a half years, I worked with my project partners to develop a stage experience that combined music, video recordings, and narrative texts into a complete work. This project brought together many aspects of my work: composition and production, conceptual thinking and artistic signature, structure and emotional openness.

The central driving force behind all my projects is the search for something special.

Beyond that, I am always looking for new connections between sound, space, and medium. For example, my sound collage "Zoo" (2019) was performed for the ZKM's 47-channel sound dome as part of the Next Generation festival. At the Kunsthalle Mannheim, a chamber music co-composition by me and two fellow students was presented as a VR exhibit—a musical and dance interpretation of Rudolf Belling's sculpture Dreiklang. For the interactive performance "Do You? | Like Me!" (PATHOS Theater Munich, 2023), I developed the musical and sound concept, composed the music, and was responsible for sound engineering.

In addition to my classical and electronic works, I have always had the privilege of coming into contact with international music cultures. A study visit to Shanghai led to the composition of the work "Uneasy" for pipa, viola, and piano, which I performed in an audiovisual performance at Tongji University. In my long-standing collaboration with Chilean artist Victor Rodriguez, I immersed myself in the tradition of Nueva Canción and its political and musical forms of expression.

I combine curiosity with creative clarity and make complex processes manageable.

Today, I work as a composer, music producer, and arranger at the interface between my own artistic work and applied projects. My approach combines curiosity with creative clarity and a working method that makes complex processes manageable. Thanks to my diverse training and project experience, I am able to bring together different roles—from the initial idea to implementation and final production.