He studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Klaus Becker and received the advice of Jonathan Kelly and Maurice Bourge. He has been a member of JONDE, of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and of the European Union Youth Orchestra. With more than 10 years of experience as solo oboe at the NDR Radiophilharmonie, he also collaborates with orchestras like Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta de Cadaqués, with conductors such as Haitink, Nelsons, Gardiner, Rozhdestvensky, Pinnock and Sir Neville Marriner. As a soloist, he played the concertos by Martinu and Mozart with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, and the Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds by Mozart with the NDR Radiophilharmonie.