BIO...
I started at the age of seven with piano lessions, three years later with classical guitar. After about four years, the Blues, Hendrix, Deep Purple and the fun playing in bands won against Bach and Carcassi. After finishing school I totally fell in love with Jazz, practising eight  and more hours a day, Bebop, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Miles, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino...

A few years after this intense "jazz-only" trainings, I re-discovered my roots, Blues and Rock and the more I  grew musically, everything locked together. Today my style is kind of a fusion of my Jazz infuences and my personal way of hearing and playing, always with a strong foundation in the Blues.

LOGICAL...
I think, any kind of purism tends to be narrow-minded. Good music needs passion, heart and Soul, and there is a lot of good music in every part of this world...Creating your own style is always a journey to your heart, transforming tradition into here and now.

My all-time favourites are Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery. Especially without the genius of Jimi Hendrix our modern guitar world would simply not exist.

LIVE & STUDIO
I played with a lot of great musicians, too many to mention, thanks to all:
Karl Ratzer, Sandra Pires, Timna Brauer, Eli Meiri, Kim Cooper, Jazz Gitti, Glen Fisher, Allegre Correa, Thomas Kugi, Sumitra, Andi Lee Lang, Ernest Fontenot, Dennis Jale, Jerry Scheff, Big Jay McNeely, Eddie Cole, Ingrid Jensen, Robert Riegler, Bertl Mayer, Mischa Krausz, Tini Kainrath, Ulli Baer, Anzo Morawitz, Peter Dürr, Bella Wagner, Hubert Tubbs, Aminata Seydi, Michael Seida, Alexander Göbel, Gianna Charles...

Theater, Opera and Musicalproductions with:

Neue Oper Wien, Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstler Orchester, Theater in der Josefstadt, Volkstheater...

-Chech, Lachenmann, Schnittke, Brecht, Weill...