Studied at the Bruckner Conservatory and the Mozarteum Salzburg with Alfons Kontarsky and with Claude Helffer in Paris. Since 1992 director of the Landesmusikschule Bad Goisern and initiator of master classes, which brought numerous prominent musicians and thousands of students from all over the world to the Salzkammergut. Numerous interdisciplinary music projects in East Asia and South America, such as in the concert hall of the “Forbidden City” in Beijing and the Winter Festival in Brasilia. Founder of the Eisklang concerts in the Dachstein ice caves in Obertraun. Several publications as well as lectures, concerts, master classes and guest lectures at universities and conservatories in Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Guilin, Tainan, Wuhan, Fo Shan, Dalian and Guyang, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.
A sound installation between Notre Dame Cathedral and the ice caves on the Dachstein.
The US artist Bill Fontana is developing a sound sculpture as an artistic statement on the consequences of climate change.
