He won several international prizes at organ competitions, such as the Bach-Wettbewerb in Wiesbaden 1983 and the Liszt-Wettbewerb in Budapest in 1988.
In 1994 he became an organ professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.
[1] In 2012/13 he moved to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München to succeed Edgar Krapp.
He has also released CDs of adaptations of works by Franz Liszt, Max Reger, Igor Stravinsky, Brian Ferneyhough, Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis.
[1] As a musicologist, he has written a book on 'new tonality' from Schubert to Webern[3] and a collaboration with Veronica Diederen on the two-part inventions by J. S.