received his master’s degree with honours in guitar and in composition in Vienna (guitar with Prof Alvaro Pierri and composition with Dr Reiner Bishof and Prof Christian Minkowitsch). He is currently pursuing his PhD in composition in Surrey, England.
As a guitarist as well as a composer, he has won numerous first prizes, such as Altheim in Austria, Changsha in China, Treviso and Acerra in Italy etc. His music has been performed in prestigious venues, on concerts in the Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Washington National Gallery of Art, Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Slovene Philharmonic Hall etc.
His works have been published by Canadian publisher Les Production d'OzHe is also an active lecturer, giving lectures about composing for guitar on various European and USA universities, such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Vienna and Frankfurt Universities etc.
In 2018 he was appointed guitar professor at Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, and in 2019 he became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
