My performance activities include work with traditional notated music, graphic scores, free improvisation and Baroque music. Alongside my activities as a violinist I am dedicated to the revival of the viola d’amore and have already premiered numerous new compositions for the instrument. I am a founding member of the koan trio (Köln), Augenmusik and the Williams-Sack-Whitman Trio (both Buffalo, NY). I also play regularly with the Wandelweiser Composers’ Ensemble (Düsseldorf). I also work in the areas of Sound-Projection and Computer Music. In the Summer of 2003 I attended the stage de composition et d’informatique at Ircam (Paris). I have collaborated with numerous composers and performers to develop custom software for live-electronics and live-video. As a "Laptop Musician" I have appeared with Schlagquartett Köln, the Thürmchen Ensemble and cello trio blu.

In 2003 I completed my Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Sate University of New York at Buffalo, where my principal composition teachers were David Felder and Erik Oña and I studied computer music with Cort Lippe and Richard Dudas. Before coming to Buffalo, I earned a B.Mus. from Rice University in Houston and studied Musicology at the Technische Universität Dresden.

In addition to my activities as a musician I also teach business and technical English at the Universität zu Köln and several leading German companies.

I am based in Cologne, Germany.