Background & Professional Context
A practice shaped by pedagogy, research and performance
My work emerges from a long-term engagement with music as an embodied, social and cultural practice.
For more than 15 years, I have been combining formal music education, ethnographic research and professional performance to develop formats that function across schools, cultural institutions, festivals and club contexts.
This page presents a thematic overview of that practice. For a full chronological record, please refer to the CV downloads below.
Formal training and pedagogical foundations
My formal education combines instrumental mastery, pedagogical training and music-ethnological research. From early on, my focus has been on understanding how musical learning, motivation and collective experience interact in different cultural and social contexts.
- Diploma Jazz trumpet & instrumental pedagogy — Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
- University Studies Music education & teaching practice — University of Leipzig
- Leonardo Programme Creative music training & curriculum development — Escuela de Música Creativa, Madrid
- MUS-E Arts-in-education methodology — Yehudi Menuhin Foundation
- Research Focus Music, trance and ritual practices — ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco
One practice — translated across contexts
Education & Youth Work
Participatory music formats for schools and youth programmes — rhythm, voice, improvisation and digital tools. Focus on motivation, collective learning and low-threshold access.
Community & Ensemble Work
Long-term ensemble processes based on transcultural collaboration and shared responsibility. Musical structures that enable participation beyond stylistic boundaries.
Artistic & Stage Contexts
Live performance projects where acoustic instruments, electronics and real-time looping meet. Artistic research that feeds back into educational practice.
Concept development, coordination and responsibility
I conceive, coordinate and supervise long-term artistic and educational projects in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and public institutions.
My responsibilities include concept development, team recruitment, pedagogical supervision and quality assurance — often within complex institutional and intercultural frameworks.
Institutions & cultural partners
Power of the Arts 2017
Awarded for educational projects developed with Banda Comunale Dresden — a recognition of long-term work at the intersection of music pedagogy, transcultural collaboration and community building.
Formal CVs
For a full chronological record of my professional background.
Workshops & Collaborations
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