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| Flu | June 7, 2008 |
Just wanted to give a short note to my friends and collaborators here, that I'll have to be be offline for a couple of days because of a summer-flu.
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| Keep Your Fingers Crossed | May 15, 2008 |
I'll be on a Concert Tour with my Choir
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| War Requiem | April 25, 2008 |
Broadcasting with my choir on May 2nd ...
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| Turbo Cellphone | March 6, 2008 |
better than iPhone 
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| One year on icomp - a wish | March 4, 2008 |
Happy Birthday to me
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Biography
born in Munich - Germany
I grew up in the small town (10000 inhabitants) Murnau, 1 hour south of Munich. As a boy I liked to play soccer and besides that I've got a little time to spend with doing homework and learning to play on various music-instruments (flute, clarinet, sax, piano, guitar, trumpet). When I was about 15, I discovered that the hip girls at my school were more interested in the musicmakers than the soccer-boys I started to develop my musical interests vastly:
I played in several bands (sax, sometimes flute or clarinet and keyboards) and sang in an 8-men-acap-group, for that I also wrote lots of arrangements.
Besides all I prepared myself for being accepted at the "Musikhochschule" (University for Music), I considered to become a classical music teacher.
When I was 19 I passed my "Abitur" and thought, it might be more suitable for me to make music as a hobby. A music teacher's first task is to teach music, not to make music. And I watched several good musicians, who worked as teachers - losing their creativity and starving mentally in frustration. Students and children can be very cruel, if teachers are not tough enough.
So I started studying physics an chemistry in Munich. But I continued playing in bands, singing in an acap-group and several classical choirs. I also founded several own choirs. For all those and more musical activities I needed plenty of time - I`m afraid that`s the reason why I was not the top-notch-science-crack I should have been.
When I was 25, I was confronted with the fact, that a promotion and postdoctoral education in chemistry and pharmacology (my main subject) would last at least five more years. So I decided to do what my heart was asking me to do: I dropped my scientific career and underwent the really hard qualifying examination as a conductor on the Musikhochschule (University of Music). Still I didn't want to end up as a music-teacher in high-school.
After wasting my time for so many years, at last I could do what I always wanted do. I went to the classes with ardent zeal - and my endeavors were very successful.
The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich engaged me after my Master-Diploma as a Professor for Choral Conducting, and I started to work as a choirdirector for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. I enjoyed a lot to get the chance to make the musical preparations of the Munich Philharmonic Choir for all the great conductors of the world (James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Krzystof Penderecki, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons and many more).
I'm teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts: But I only teach students, whose passion is music - no compulsory subjects, no high-school-teaching. I teach students, whose main-subject is choral-conducting and composing, incl. composing for film and TV.
Since last year I built up a studio. I like the abolishment of genre-restrictions that goes hand in hand with the undescribable development computer-music underwent in the past five years.
I see new chances for music without limitations: Mozart had never to answer the question whether his music was classical or popular. Modern Sounddesign offers new possibilities, new chances for music every day. Everything happens faster today; but only quality will survive ...
It`s not a matter of style. Too many borders exist. In March this year I discovered icomp. A great community with wonderful, highly creative people. Each of them has a totally different biography. But one thing counts more than all the other: Music
I grew up in the small town (10000 inhabitants) Murnau, 1 hour south of Munich. As a boy I liked to play soccer and besides that I've got a little time to spend with doing homework and learning to play on various music-instruments (flute, clarinet, sax, piano, guitar, trumpet). When I was about 15, I discovered that the hip girls at my school were more interested in the musicmakers than the soccer-boys I started to develop my musical interests vastly:
I played in several bands (sax, sometimes flute or clarinet and keyboards) and sang in an 8-men-acap-group, for that I also wrote lots of arrangements.
Besides all I prepared myself for being accepted at the "Musikhochschule" (University for Music), I considered to become a classical music teacher.
When I was 19 I passed my "Abitur" and thought, it might be more suitable for me to make music as a hobby. A music teacher's first task is to teach music, not to make music. And I watched several good musicians, who worked as teachers - losing their creativity and starving mentally in frustration. Students and children can be very cruel, if teachers are not tough enough.
So I started studying physics an chemistry in Munich. But I continued playing in bands, singing in an acap-group and several classical choirs. I also founded several own choirs. For all those and more musical activities I needed plenty of time - I`m afraid that`s the reason why I was not the top-notch-science-crack I should have been.
When I was 25, I was confronted with the fact, that a promotion and postdoctoral education in chemistry and pharmacology (my main subject) would last at least five more years. So I decided to do what my heart was asking me to do: I dropped my scientific career and underwent the really hard qualifying examination as a conductor on the Musikhochschule (University of Music). Still I didn't want to end up as a music-teacher in high-school.
After wasting my time for so many years, at last I could do what I always wanted do. I went to the classes with ardent zeal - and my endeavors were very successful.
The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich engaged me after my Master-Diploma as a Professor for Choral Conducting, and I started to work as a choirdirector for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. I enjoyed a lot to get the chance to make the musical preparations of the Munich Philharmonic Choir for all the great conductors of the world (James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Krzystof Penderecki, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons and many more).
I'm teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts: But I only teach students, whose passion is music - no compulsory subjects, no high-school-teaching. I teach students, whose main-subject is choral-conducting and composing, incl. composing for film and TV.
Since last year I built up a studio. I like the abolishment of genre-restrictions that goes hand in hand with the undescribable development computer-music underwent in the past five years.
I see new chances for music without limitations: Mozart had never to answer the question whether his music was classical or popular. Modern Sounddesign offers new possibilities, new chances for music every day. Everything happens faster today; but only quality will survive ...
It`s not a matter of style. Too many borders exist. In March this year I discovered icomp. A great community with wonderful, highly creative people. Each of them has a totally different biography. But one thing counts more than all the other: Music
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| dirigent | |
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| Songs: | 162 |
| Comments: | 8,134 |
| Forum Posts: | 94 |
| Blog Entries: | 15 |
| Location: | Munich, Germany |
| Interests: | music, biking, travelling |
| Computer: | iMac 24'' |
| Instruments: | Piano, Voice, Saxophone, Flutes, Synthesizers, Guitar and Percussion |
| Occupation: | conductor, musician/freelancer, honorary professor |
| Registered: | March 4, 2007 |
| Last visit: | 1 hour ago |
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