Youth: The first Pianolesson I received when I was five years old from Miss Teichmann in Goettingen'/Germany. The lady impressed me from the first lesson, since she was as livly as only Italians could be. She came from Itatly before she married a german. After her Death I change to her former student Gerrit Zitterbart.

Pianostudies: After School I studied the piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts (=KUG) in Graz/Austria with Prof. Sebastian Benda (See him in the Youtubevideo from an Edwin Fisher Masterclass). In several interpretationcourses and masterclasses I received some additional advises from Einaar Steen Noekleberg, Hans Leygraf, Lew Naumov, Jürgen Uhde, Tibor Hazay und Peter Feuchtwanger. Beside the classical Piano I studied at the KUG Graz at the the same time Jazzpiano with Harry Neuwirth and paricipated during those studies Workshops with Bobby McFerrin, Bill Dobbins, Richie Beirach and others.

 

Musicology: After acheeving the permission to teach Piano at the KUG/Graz I changed to the F.U. Berlin where I graduate in musicology with Prof. Rudolf Stephan and achieved a Masterdegree with an Analysis of a large Work for Choir and orchestra by the german romantic composer Felix Draeseke and became doctor in musicology with a monographical thesis about one of the very few students of Johannes Brahms Robert Kahn .
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