Biographical notes and C.V.

I loved music as a child and saw myself as a singer at an early age. As a teenager I took up the guitar and spend hours daily improvising and eventually had a 3-4 hour repertoire of original material as well as Bob Dylan, Beatles and blues artists.

After leaving school I spent a year traveling. After this year of going it alone I had come to the end of any career aspirations. At this point I saw the film "Amadeus". During the course of my seeing this film I formed the resolve to devote the rest of my life and faculties to the pursuit of music and especially composition. I knew that this would challenge me for the rest of my life, and I would reap endless amount of pleasure and pain from it. I thank Wolfgang Mozart for his inspirational role in my life.

19 years on I now see my professional activities as ranging from composing for professional musicians, teaching young children, performing piano and song recitals, directing local ensembles, and writing about music and the human being.

My work with Waldorf education trainees has given me further opportunity to explore the qualities of the musical elements such as scales, modes, intervals, major-minor, time signatures (organisation of pulse) and tempo.... time and space.....contraction and expansion.....levity and gravity....in relation to the development of the human being and the different modes of consiousness that accompany different stages of our biography.

In working with students with little or no practical musical background I have developed ways of including all willing participants in both singing and in improvisational workshops with percussion instruments. In these workshops the qualities of the various materials and the effect they have on the listener are questioned and explored. The relationship of sound and matter is a focus of attention in the improvisation as well as the particular social responsibility which is given to the improviser in a group by the nature of a particular instrument.

C.V.

I was born 02.06.1964 in Esbjerg, Denmark

Between 1977 and 1987 I lived in Forest Row,GB

Between 1987 and 1994 I lived in Hamburg, DE

Since 1994 in Forest Row, GB again.1981 O-levels and part of Prospero in "The Tempest" at Michael Hall.A-levels in German and Art with art history at Michael Hall School.

1983-1984 Longer journey through Austria, Switzerland, France and Spain. 2 1/2 months work experience in a home for mentally handicapped adolescents in France.

1984 –1987 Independent study of music (theory & harmony, composition, singing, piano) with Cecil Cope (Forest Row) and Louis Demetrius Alvanis www.alvanis.com (London). Grade 8 piano-exam July 1987.

1987-1992 Music training at the Music seminar at the Eurythmy school Hamburg

Main Subjects: Composition (Elmar Lampson www.elmar-lampson.de), Piano (Ulrike Bauer), Choir conducting (Michael Hartenberg), subsidiary subject: singing and history of German folk song. Graduation: Concerto for Violin and Chamber-Orchestra, and works for solo piano and for choir a cappella. Piano exam and public recital: Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bartok and Brinch.

Written diploma work and public lecture on "the interplay between the forces of the major and minor seconds in the formation of the major scale"

1991-1994 Marriage to Sigune Grosse (*1964)Birth of first child (Selina)Birth of second child (Theodor)

Part-time music teacher and Eurythmy piano accompanist at the Seminar for Waldorf-eduation in Hamburg.

1994-2001 Carrier of music and eurythmy piano accompanist at Emerson College, Co-carrier of the "Foundation Course" at Emerson.

Summer 2001 End of work at Emerson College in order to pursue career as a composer.