musician
I was born in Tulln in 1960 and received clarinet lessons from Prof. Umlauf at the Tulln Music School at the age of 8. Four years later, I began studying clarinet and saxophone with Prof. Karl Kowarik at the jazz department of the Vienna Conservatory (now: Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK)).
Even before graduating (1980), I was established in Vienna's music scene, playing in bands with newcomers of the emerging Austropop scene and beginning to play in the orchestra of the "Theater an der Wien," initially as a substitute, and since 1987 as a permanent member of the "Orchester Vereinigte Bühnen Wien" (United Stages of Vienna Orchestra). Tours, concerts, studio work, and film and television productions followed.
author
1978
2026
The SELMER M6 tenor saxophone (162,000) is still the same!
In 2003 I left the life of an artist to embark on an adventure trip with my then-wife on horseback from South Africa to Kenya.
After that, we managed a safari hotel in Tanzania before I returned to Vienna for personal reasons to resume my artistic career as a musician. I processed my experiences of the crazy horseback riding trip and my life as an outsider in two books published by Seifert Verlag.
"FARASI: The Century Ride Through Africa" was published in 2008, followed in December 2011 by the biographical narrative KIFARU: "Endstation Afrika" (Final Destination Africa). In September 2013, Seifert Verlag also published the biography of the Austrian jazz legend Hans Salomon , "Jazz, Women and More Jazz" .
