Playing drums since the age of 15. Left-handed. Mainly self-taught. Musically socialised with all kinds of 70's and 80's music: Rock, Pop, later Fusion, Jazz, Latin, Reggae, Worldmusic. Lessons with Matthias Philipzen and jazz teachers Hardy Fischötter and Karl Godejohann. Workshops/masterclasses with some of the most renowned names in drumming: Bernard Purdie, Adam Nussbaum, Jojo Mayer, Chester Thompson, Dom Famularo, amongst others.
My education includes music studies at the University of Hildesheim, '93-'98, and travels to Brasil (Afrobrasil Percussion studies) and Bali/Indonisia (Gendér Wayang).
Since 2005 I am based in Berlin, picking up Cajon, and recently studying the traditional Korean drum 'Chango' with Korean Masterdrummer Park Myunghyun.
- board member of Percussion Creativ since 2007
- writer for the magazines "Offbeat" and "DMRaktuell"
- Writer/ journalist for the German Drum Mag Drumheads .
- frequent publications on new instrument gear, stories, reports:
Click right to read an extract of my product review on Zildjian ZHT Cymbals
- interviews with: Zoro (Lenny Kravitz), Stanton Moore (Galactic), Rachel Rep (Farin Urlaub), Aaron Thier (Solo Artist).
Click below to read an extract of my interview with
Rob Bourdon (Linkin Park)
Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Jojo Mayer (Nerve)
Jost Nickel (Jan Delay)
- From 2002-2004 writer for the Drum Mag Sticks .
- Professional Drumteacher since 2003
2006-2007: Drum teacher at Modern Music School, Berlin
Since 2007: Berlin Music School (formerly "Modern Music School Berlin")
- 2007/08/09: Judge in the pop/drums category for the German Musician contest "Jugend Musiziert"
Musical activities/ Bands
Current:
Swing: Please check here for dates.
- fourschlag (as Sub), rhythm comedy
Freelancer for different projects and musicians, ranging from Swing/Vocal Swing via Folk, Jazz and Pop to World- and Singer/Songwriter-Music.
Past:
- 2003/4: Actor/drummer at Junges Theater, Göttingen.
kampfumsparadies, Rock/Rio Reiser Cover
- !mahw MusiKameleons, Comedy music, shows and appearances all over Germany and Europe incl. Portuguese TV
- Motrat , Albanian Jazz-Folk-Fusion
- Bräsh, Pop-Ska
- The Research Institute, Experimental
- Rent a Rasta, Reggae
Casual jobs: Samba, Maracatú, Salsa, Dancefloor, Top 40...
Some musicians I've had the pleasure to play with: Jean Louis Rassinfosse, Ken David Masur, Sarah Kaiser, Johannes Kersthold, Thibault Falk, amongst others
