Born 1965, in Zurich Switzerland. He started playing piano and drums at four. He learned classical music during school time and began playing improvised music at 14. Founded his own first group and started to compose music. He cites Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett,
Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Bela Bartok, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder as early influences on his music. From 1996 - 98 he studied in New York at the Julliard School of Music, piano, composition and musical theory. During that time he was playing concerts and sessions with many different musicians from New York.
Starts touring with different groups in Switzerland and internationally. Played at the North Sea Jazz Festival Den Haag, Pori Jazzfestival Finland, Umbria Jazz Festival Perugia Italy, Saint Petersburg Russia, JVC Jazz Festival New York.

 

Currently he is playing with the Trio WWU ( with Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich), the Trio WSW (with Daniel Studer and Christian Wolfarth), his New York-based group Urban llage (with Mark Turner, Ben Street and Nasheet Waits) and with the Chris Wiesendanger Nonet Undersong. In 2006 he composed music for the Chinese Dance Company Shen Huei in Hongkong. This production is currently touring in Asia (Singapore, Taiwan and ongkong). He was also invited to teach summerclasses at the Keio University in Tokyo, Japan in 2006.

As a composer, improviser and pianist he is comitted to developing music which tries to find new musical ways and tries to broaden the boundaries around his work. The diversity of his many influences are represented by his different groups. He is interested also in lassical Indian music, Brazilian music, African Music, popular music forms (which includes producing music), 20th century classical compositions. And he is also fascinated by onnections of music to the visual arts, dance and film.

 

He is currently teaching at the Musikhochschule HMT Zurich and at the Musikhochschule MHS Luzern.