First tuba lessons at the LMS Attnang-Puchheim with Walter Krempl. Studies at the Anton Bruckner University Linz with Wilfried Brandstötter. During his studies permanent substitute of the Brucknerorchester Linz.

2009 – 2010 intern at the Frankfurt Opera.

Further lessons with Christian Penz in Linz and Jozsef Juhasz in Frankfurt.

Since the 2012/13 season tuba player at the Stuttgart State Opera /Staatsorchester Stuttgart under GMD Sylvain Cambreling and GMD Cornelius Meister

Active substitute work with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera Munich, SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Nuremberg State Theater, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Munich Radio Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Volksoper, and many others.

Collaboration with leading conductors of our time such as Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Herbert Blomsted, Christoph Eschenbach, Marek Janowski, Semyon Bychkov, Jonathan Nott, and many more.

From 2014- 2018 lecturer for double bass tuba at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

Since 1.10.2019 professor for tuba and brass chamber music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau and since 1.9.2021 also professor for tuba at the FHNW Nordwestschweiz – Musikhochschule Basel