*1962, Vienna (AT). Percussionist, studied at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, later specialising in modern music. He has worked together with various orchestras (including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Symphony Orchestra), performs chamber music in a trio with Ernesto Molinari and Georg Schultz (clarinet, accordion and drums), collaborates as a jazz and rock drummer with Wolfgang and Christian Muthspiel, Franz Hautzinger, Michael Heltau and Claude Bolling, and plays in a Frank Zappa project with Ascolta; ensemble member of Klangforum Wien. As a soloist he participated in well-known music festivals at home and abroad.