1976
musical lessons with Otto Laufner
(Georg-Büchner-Schule Darmstadt)
1977-82
first guitar lessons with Cord Meijering
1982-86
guitar studies with Olaf Van Gonnissen
(Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt)
1983-85
private composition studies with Cord Meijering and Dietrich Boekle
1985-89
composition studies with Toni Völker
(Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt)
1993-95
composition studies with Manfred Trojahn
(Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf)
1995-99
studies of electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert
(Hochschule für Musik Köln)