Born: October 8, 1989
With 6 years of more or less successful piano lessons
With 12 years and 3 guitar chords Entry into the Irish folk scene of the Altmark – lessons with “Krolli” (Frank Kroll)
With 15 years of first contact with American Funk / Soul by the Ileborgh combo under the direction of Mohi Buschendorf (www.waldhausstudio.de)
Guitarist newbirth by discovery of the fingerstyle
First Solokonzerte
Weekly odyssey to Jörg Ratai in the conservatory Magdeburg, 70km away, for guitar lessons (www.thiem20.de)
Duo “Chickadee” (with Lisa Zwinzscher)
Band projects around the artist and songwriter Rainer Trunk (www.dntl.de)
Two seasons as an orchestral musician at the Altmark theater in Stendal (“Evita” and “Dreigroschenoper”)
Film music for “Karé”, “weakness of action” and “fear and misfortune”, and recorded and produced in self-government
Member of the Big Band of the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Conservatory Magdeburg
2007 Lions Club Fellowship
1st prize at the national competition “Jugend jazzt” with Jakob Meilicke
Average high school diploma
2008/09 as a musician in the cabaret “Denkzettel” in Magdeburg
2009 – 1st prize at the national competition “Jugend jazzt” with “Chickadee” and forwarding to the Federal Council with Frank Schlüter in the guitar duo “Freaky Fingers”
2009 Annie Sellick and Pat Bergeson (USA)
3rd Prize at the Federal Council “Jugend jazzt” in Hanover
Since 2009 studies with Prof. Thomas Fellow, Prof. Ralf Beutler, Gaelle Solal and David Sick at the Academy of Music “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden (course of studies Guitar / Worldmusic)
Collaboration with the string quartet “Streichbar” (www.streichbar.net)
2010 numerous performances with “Friling” (http://myspace.com/friling), the duo “Linda and Phil” (http://www.myspace.com/lindaundphil) and solo (among other things at the 7th guitar festival Rietberg and The 1st International Freepsumer Guitar Festival)
2011/2012 Guest appearances at the “Jugendbigband Anhalt” with Pascal von Wroblewski
Since 2011 strengthened cooperation with Sönke Meinen, in the duo “Die PhiliSöphen” and “hotrio” with Linda Gossmann