The training as a tenor and painter

After completing my formative years at Wiener Sängerknaben , I was drawn back to Upper Austria. There, at my grammar school, I met an exceptionally creative and innovative art teacher, through whose influence my previously hidden talent for painting was discovered and encouraged - a path that led me to my first professional exhibitions. At the same time, my musical passion received similarly intensive encouragement, which culminated in my performance of George Gershwin's piano concerto "Rhapsody in Blue" at my A-levels at the music education secondary school in Grieskirchen.

I then continued my studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts, the renowned "Angewandte" in Vienna. Here I deepened my singing skills under the guidance of the chamber singer Hilde Rössl-Majdan and refined my painting skills with Adolf Frohner and as an "extraordinary" with Oswald Oberhuber. This period was characterized by an intensive student life in which music and painting interacted fruitfully. As a pianist, singer, guitarist and cabaret artist, I gained extensive stage experience in Vienna and during the summer months at the picturesque Attersee.

I financed my studies by working as an educator at Wiener Sängerknaben, followed by my first "real" engagement as a tenor in the ORF radio choir. This was followed by appearances as a professional choir singer at the Vienna Musikverein, at the ORF, in Viennese concert halls and in Vienna's renowned theaters and opera houses. I soon awoke a burning desire to devote myself fully to the world of singing and being a soloist. But before I could pursue this dream, I still had a "bread and butter" job to do: I studied music education with outstanding professors such as Heinz Kratochwil, Erwin Ortner and Uwe Harrer and returned to Upper Austria as a teacher for a while after graduating.