Guitarist, composer, arranger and pedagogue, born in Heinsberg (North Rhine). He learnt piano since 1970, later guitar. 1983-1991 he studied instrumental pedagogy (major subject: guitar, minor subjet: flute) at the Musikhochschule Köln, Abteilung Aachen. 1987-1991 he worked at music schools, 1993-1997 he led the Jugendmusikschule Heinsberg. Since 2007 he is music teacher at the Bischhöfliche Marienschule in Mönchengladbach. He composed works for “Theater 99” at Aachen, for the Kölner Philharmonie and since 2008 arrangements for the Jugendsinfonieorchester Mönchengladbach. (Rainer Stelle)