Organisation:
Label activities:
* Founder and CEO of Session Work Records - Austria's biggest active Jazz Label Session Work Records with focus on young artists since 2007
* Released 120 CDs/LPs with over 300 musicians and have built an important platform for the young Austrian Jazz Scene
* 5 years in the management board of VTMÖ (Verband unabhängiger Musikproduzenten)
Concert activties:
* Organisator of the Session Work Festival
* 5 Editions at Porgy&Bess and other venues
* Founder of the movement Vienna Jazz Composers hosted by Porgy&Bess as a predecessor of Session Work Activities.
Education:
University Mozarteum Salzburg:
* 2015 to now Lecturer for Jazz/Pop for following subjects:
* Big Band & Ensemble
* Ear & Rhythm Training
* Jazz/Pop Praxis Saxophone and Melody Instruments
* Arrangement & Composition
University Jazzcampus Basel:
* 2016 to now guest Lecturer for Music Busines
Artistic:
Instruments:
professional:
* alto and soprano saxophone
* clarinet & bass clarinet
* pepephon®
additonal:
* tenor/baritone saxophone
* flute
* basic knowledge of drums & piano
Awards:
* Hans Koller Preis:
* Newcomer of the Year
* New York-Stipendium
* Audience Award
* Nomination Amadeus Award 2018 (Best Sound)
Worked with:
* Vienna Art Orchestra
* Ari Hoenig
* Tyshawn Sorey (Drummer Steve Coleman)
* Ziv Ravitz (Drummer Lee Konitz)
* Saxofour
* Joseph Bowie
* Adam Holzman (Keyboards Miles Davis)
* Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orch.)
* Peter Wiegold
* Jazzwerkstatt Wien&Graz
* Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
* Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester
Played concerts at/in:
* The Jazz Standard NYC
* Jazzbaltica Festival broadcasted on 3Sat TV
* Night of Virtuosos auf Réunion Islands/Mauritius among others with Renaud Garcia-Fons
* Joe´s Pub NYC
* Jazzfestival Berlin, Rom, Peking, Trieste, Amsterdam, London, Belgrad, Kavala, Warschau, Lodz, Jazzbaltica, Varna, Wiesen, Istanbul, Krakau, Sounding Jerusalem, Vortex London, Porgy&Bess Vienna, Moods Zürich and others
* Studied with: Florian Bramböck, Karl-Heinz Miklin, Heinrich von Kalnein, Klaus Dickbauer, Örjan Fahlström (Stockholm), Ed Partyka
