About

I was born and raised in Berlin, and music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. It started with the guitar, which has remained my main instrument ever since. Over the years, that interest grew well beyond the instrument itself: I became increasingly curious about how music is created, how musicians interact, how a room influences what we hear, and how a performance can be captured without losing what made it special in the first place.

That combination of musical and technical curiosity eventually led me to study Tonmeister at the Berlin University of the Arts. I completed my classical guitar diploma examination in 2010 and graduated as a Diplom-Tonmeister in 2011. Since then, I have worked independently across a broad range of musical settings — sometimes in the studio or behind a mixing desk, sometimes on location, and sometimes on stage myself.

Moving between both sides of the microphone has always felt natural to me. I enjoy the precision and concentration of recording and mixing just as much as the immediacy of playing with other musicians. Working in different musical traditions and with people from very different backgrounds has shaped the way I listen and work: with curiosity, respect for the music, and an interest in finding solutions that serve the particular situation rather than imposing a fixed formula.

Guitar is still at the centre of my own musical practice, and if you see me performing, there is a good chance that the instrument in my hands is one I built myself. I also teach a small group of guitar students, which gives me another perspective on music — breaking things down, finding different ways of explaining them and, quite often, learning something myself in the process.

And when there is time left, I tend to make things. Sometimes that means building an instrument, composing music or writing a small piece of software, and sometimes following an idea simply because I want to find out whether it can be made to work. That slightly nerdy, hands-on side has been a constant companion to my musical life — and probably explains why the boundaries between music, sound, technology and making things have never felt particularly strict to me.