Violoncello

Started his career as prize-winner of the International Music Competition, Munich. He played with many important orchestras and in the centers of the musical world (Carnegie-Hall, New York, Tchaikovsky-Hall, Moscow, Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Berliner Philharmonie), and with conductors as Herbert von Karajan, Sergiu Celibidache, Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Barenboim and others. Yehudi Menuhin, Witold Lutosławski and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had a deep influence on him as an artistic personality. Up to summer 1976 he was solo cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He left this position to devote exclusively to his career as a soloist and chamber music player and overtook a professorship at the Berlin Universität der Künste. He made first performances of Lutosławski, Dutilleur, A.Reimann, Klebe and others. Many excellent young cellists come from his class of Universität der Künste Berlin where he has kept position as Emeritus Professor.