born in 1967 in Brixen, Italy, studied at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Peter Schmidl and Hans Hindler and in Zurich with Hans Rudolf Stalder. In 1991 he received his Konzertdiplom and since then has lived as a freelance musician in Vienna.

He was soon playing regularly with the Klangforum Vienna, Die Reihe, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and others, including appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Vienna Philharmonic. In chamber music he has worked with Christian Altenburger, Ernst Kovacic, Thomas and Patrick Demenga, Valentin Erben, Quirine Viersen, Thomas Larcher, the Artis and Petersen Quartets among others.