He has been General Director of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation since 2013 and Chairman of its Board of Directors since 2023. After earning a PhD in empirical cultural studies, he served as Artistic Director of the Youth Music Festival in Deutschlandsberg (Styria), Junge Kultur Hallein (Salzburg), and KulturRegion Stuttgart, where he organized a festival across 17 cities to mark the centenary of Paul Hindemith. From 1999 to 2004 he was Press Officer and Dramaturg at the Nuremberg State Theatre, and from 2005 to 2012 he worked closely with Hans Werner Henze during the composer’s final years. He has staged music theatre works at FrankfurtFeste, Steirischer Herbst, the Munich Biennale – International Festival of New Music Theatre, the Forum der Jugendkultur Hallein, the Chamber Opera Tübingen, the CrossSound Festival in Juneau (Alaska), the Orpheus Festival in Fresno (California), the Festival Teatro e/o Musica in Sassari (Sardinia), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, and the Nuremberg University of Music. He has collaborated with composers such as Hans Werner Henze, Stefan Hakenberg, Stefano Taglietti, Vito Palumbo, Luca Lombardi, Jack Fortner, Bun Ching Lam, among many others. He has written three stage plays and one screenplay (*Paul’s Party*), which was adapted for cinema in 2000. With the ensemble El Cimarrón, which he co-founded in 1999, he has given numerous performances in Austria (Hallein – Junge Kultur, Kulturforum; Salzburg – Salzburg Festival, Aspekte Festival, Orff Institute), Italy (Teatro Civico Sassari, Nuova Consonanza Rome, Nino Rota Conservatory–Festival di Liuteria Monopoli, Marino – Il Chiostro, Montepulciano – Teatro Poliziano), Germany (Munich University of Music, Nuremberg State Theatre, NDR Hamburg, Ingolstadt – Sommer im Altmühltal, Konstanz – Stadttheater, Oberhausen – Stadttheater, Dresden – Semperoper, Überlingen – Sommertheater, Tübingen – Chamber Opera, Cologne – Acht Brücken Festival, Erlangen – E-Werk, Gelsenkirchen – Die Flora), as well as in the USA (Orpheus, Fresno), France (Cité Universitaire Paris), Poland (Polish Composers’ Festival, Kraków), Lithuania (Gaida Festival, Vilnius), Switzerland (Forum Wallis Festival for New Music, Brig) and Slovakia (Festivalu Banská Bystrica).