Music

Instruction

composition

theater music

arrangements

ensemble - and

Workshop management




I grew up in a small village in Kraichgau, learned to play the recorder and started taking classical violin lessons at the age of 8. As a teenager, I became interested in other facets of playing the violin, played at bal-folk festivals in neighboring France, discovered Yiddish songs and had my first performances with bands like the "North Baden Gauklergang".

I moved to Hamburg and came to Hungary almost by accident - in love with the wild and original music of Transylvanian bands and impressed by the everyday life that playing the violin means there. And where I "trained" with Tanzhaus musicians in the following years. At the same time, I began studying musicology with a focus on music ethnology and Finno-Ugric studies.


  • Street music and first appearances with various ensembles, including the Russian/Yiddish band "BolscheVita",
  • Founding of the klezmer trio trio kali gari, with whom I undertook many tours, in Germany but also in Switzerland, France, Poland, the Czech Republic... and southern China!
  • 2014 founding of the trio goraSon with virtuosic Balkan and klezmer music.
  • In addition, many other ensembles have emerged in recent years, some of which I present here, theater and silent film music, chamber music projects...
  • Conducts regular ensemble and klezmer music workshops in Germany and France


Constant further training on many topics that shape my musical path:


  • Various improvisation concepts
  • Sound painting by Walter Thompsen
  • Klezmer Styles, Yiddish, Yiddish Literature
  • Taketina
  • Old music
  • Lichtenberger method
  • Groove Techniques for Strings
  • Journeys to Eastern Europe, to the sources of this music that fascinates me so much
  • …..



........And:

At some point I was given an accordion -

Stimulated by all kinds of film music (Nino Rota, Emir Kusturica, etc.) and the compositions of Astor Piazzolla, my repertoire ranges between circus music and musette, tango argentino and Balkan sounds,

There is always something new to discover with this versatile instrument


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