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"Necessity is the mother of invention." - Frank Zappa

Born and grown up in Vienna, piano lessons at the age of 7. With 12 years he changed to guitar and after receiving his university-entrance diploma he studied jazz guitar at the conservatory of Vienna and at the American Institute of Music with Peter Legat, Claus Spechtl, Les Wise, Wayne Brasel and Karl Ratzer. Performances with bands of all styles: two of a kind, Al Fats Edwards, Andy Lee Lang, Respect, The Blues Punch, The Giant Tones, Fatal, Funky Stew, JJCapone, The Original Brothers, Jazz Terminators, Patty Miller, Robert Pawlik Quartett, Five in Love with Betty, Broadway Big Band, Musical Time Out with Marianne Mendt and Alfons Haider, Nacht der Amateure Show, the shows That’s Entertainment and Viva Las Vegas with Andy Lee Lang, Loui Austin, Three Girl Madhouse, The Jive Giants and Doretha Carter.
In the last years he focuses especially on his own music played together in quartet or duo with Michaela Rabitsch. "Incredible fluid guitar playing" (Don W. Seven, LMNOP Magazine).