Born
in Hamburg. He has studied music in Hamburg, Detmold, Cincinatti and at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He was violinist with the Brahms-Quartet
Hamburg as well as with the Ridge-Quartet New York, and since 1976 he
concertized in Europe, troughout the USA and Canada as well as in South America
and the Far East. He has won prizes in several international competitions and
held the post of principal viola in the
Stuttgart Radio orchestra from 1086-1990. Since 1990 he is professor for viola
at the Musikhochschule Köln. He has been invited to hold master-classes in
France, Norway, Austria, Korea, Taiwan, the U.S.A. and Germany as well as
participating in festivals like Lyon, Avignon, Berlin, Marlboro, Korsholm,
Slovenija, Schleswig-Holstein, Hitzacker and Warsaw. Currently, he is a member
of the Linos-Ensemble and a frequent guest with the Vermeer-and the
Auryn-Quartet.