Pianist and cultural manager. Piano Studies at the Konservatorium Vienna (Austria) and at the Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), master classes with Oleg Maisenberg and Elisabeth Leonskaja. Founder (with Tomas Zierhofer-Kin) and long-term director of the “Zeitfluss-Festival” (“Salzburger Festspiele”) as well as of “Zeit-Zone” (“Wiener Festwochen”). From 2006 until 2011 concert director of the “Salzburger Festspiele”, in 2011 in addition its director, since 2014 in this capacity at the “Wiener Festwochen”.