Fall 1999

Seoul National University, College of Music – Seoul, Südkorea

Degree: Certificate (Visiting Researcher) 
Composition: Sukhi Kang

1996 – 1999

Manhattan School of Music – New York, U.S.A.

Degree: Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) 
Composition: Giampaolo Bracali, Dr. Nils Vigeland

1994 – 1996

Rice University, The Shepherd School of Music – Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Degree: Master of Music (1996) 
Composition: Dr. Ellsworth Milburn, Dr. Samuel Jones
Piano: Jeanne Kierman Fischer, Brian Connelly

1990 – 1994

Conservatory of Music "Carl Maria von Weber" – Dresden

Degree: Diploma in Composition (1998)
Composition: Prof. Manfred Weiss, Prof. Jörg Herchet
Piano: Prof. Winfried Apel
Music Theory: Prof. Jörg Herchet/Electronic Music: Prof. Wilfried Jentzsch
Vocal Accompanying: Prof. Gertraud Geißler/Early Music: Prof. Wolfram Steude
Thesis: "Analytical Investigation into the Formal Aspects of the First Piano Sonata by Pierre Boulez"

1985 – 1989

EOS "Gerhart Hauptmann", Special Classes for Music – Wernigerode

Degree: Diploma in Music (1989)
(Voice, Piano, Composition, Music Theory, Music History, Choal Conducting) 

1981 – 1985

Public Music Schools – Berlin Baumschulenweg/Pankow/Köpenick

Piano, Music Theory, Composition

1975 – 1981

Private lessons in Piano and Music Theory

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