Junior student with David Geringas in Lübeck, subsequent cello studies with Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne and Berlin
Master classes with Anner Bylsma, Steven Isserlis and Ferenc Rados amongst others
Performances with numerous German radio symphony orchestras and renowned international orchestras
Collaboration with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jonathan Darlington, Thomas Dausgaard, Christoph Eschenbach, Hans Graf, Ruben Gazarian, Manfred Honeck, Yakov Kreizberg, Sir Neville Marriner, Eiji Oue, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Slatkin, Tugan Sokhiev, Lothar Zagrosek and David Zinman
Guest appearances at numerous festivals, among them the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the City of London Festival, the Penderecki Festival in Warsaw, and the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival; and festivals in Tanglewood, Ravinia and Aspen, regular guest at Chamber Music Festival Lockenhaus in Austria and Les Muséiques Festival in Basel
Initiation and development of project “Room for Pablo Casals" with painter Klaus-Peter Kirchner
Collaboration with chamber music partners such as Jörg Widmann, Viviane Wagner, Jonathan Gilad, Daishin Kashimoto, and Amihai Grosz
Numerous CD recordings, among others the “Four Seasons” with Daniel Hope, which received the ECHO prize in 2017
Early success at international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky Youth Competition in Moscow and Rostropovich Competition in Paris, winner of 1st prize at Geneva International Music Competition 1995 and winner of the International Pablo Casals Competition at Kronberg Academy 2000
Beginning with the 2017/18 season: artistic director of the Schlosskonzerte und Konzerttage Winnenden
2011 to 1016: professor at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart; since 2003 assistant professor and guest professor, since 2016 professor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin