KONTREBASS 1981-1983 member of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. Since 1983 member of the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper. Studies and Diploma with Ludwig Streicher and Johannes Auersperg. Concurrently studied musicology.Has worked with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra,, the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow Virtuosi under Vladimir Spivakov. Member of the Festival Ensemble of the Carinthian Summer Festival in Ossiach for many years. Member of the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra, the Vienna Biedermeier Soloists and the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic. Performs solo since 2003 with Hans Dieter Knebel, actor at the Vienna Burgtheater, in the Vestibule and Casino of the Vienna Burgtheater. Awarded the title Professor in 2008 by the Ministry of Education, Art and Culture for his work as soloist and chamber musician. His area of interest and expertise is the Viennese musical style, in particular applied to Viennese music, as well as disseminating his knowledge and experience of tone quality and shaping and increasing the volume of the double bass, in the tradition of Ludwig Streicher and Johannes Auersperg. Close