The young bass-baritone studied voice with Prof. Karlheinz Hanser and in the Lied class of Prof. Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is a laureate of several international singing competitions; among others, he won the second prize at the 2022 Hugo Wolf International Competition for Lied Art in Stuttgart. As of 2020/21 season, he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where his roles include Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, Masetto and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia or Frank in Die Fledermaus. His concert activities include various recitals, as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, J.S. Bach's St. John Passion and Handel's Messiah at the Vienna Konzerthaus, or Mendelssohn's Paulus at the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.

He discovered his passion for chamber music and vocal accompaniment during his studies in Dresden at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, and focused on these genres since fleeing the former German Democratic Republic in 1989. From 1997, Vienna has been the musical home of the pianist. He was the artistic partner of Siegfried Jerusalem and has accompanied a host of renowned singers, including Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberová, Günther Groissböck, Robert Holl and Marlis Petersen. He has performed at many major concert venues, among them the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Musikverein Vienna, Semperoper Dresden, Philharmonie Berlin, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Carnegie Hall and La Scala Milan, and is a frequent guest at international festivals such as Klangbogen-Festival at Theater an der Wien, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Salzburg Festival and Münchner Opernfestspiele.