Short biography

Studied solo piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (now University) with Paul Weingarten and Richard Hauser, song accompaniment with Erik Werba, chamber music with Otto Schulhof.

Graduated 1954

1955 - 1964 Professor at the Carinthian State Conservatory in Klagenfurt

1964 - 1970 Director and piano professor at the branch school of the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Kabul, Afghanistan

Since 1970 Professor of Piano in the Education Department and in Solo Performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (formerly Academy of Music and Performing Arts)

1980 and 1986 Guest Professorships in China (Shanghai) in Canon and Wuhan

Master classes, seminars, and lectures in Austria, Germany, Greece, China, and Taiwan.

Annual courses as part of the International Master Classes of the Musikseminar Vienna.

Concerts, radio and record recordings in Europe as a soloist, song accompanist, and as a pianist in chamber music with strings and winds (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Turkey) and Asia

Festival in Funchal, Madeira, Montreux Festival,

Pianist of the Vienna Chamber Soloists

Author:

Music theory in Dari

From playing the piano to making music

Notes become music translated into Polish, Chinese, and Russian.