He worked for major festivals including Frankfurter Feste at the Alte Oper, Young Euro Classic in Berlin and the Kasseler Musiktage.

He wrote or edited books about composers including Paul Hindemith, Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm.

He developed a chamber music course program for Blonay, focused on Hindemith, in collaboration with Thomas Brandis, Bruno Giuranna, Saschko Gawriloff, Aloys Kontarsky, Rainer Kussmaul, Siegfried Palm and Boris Pergamenschikow.

[3] He ran composers' portraits as part of the festival including of Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Luigi Nono, Olivier Messiaen, Wolfgang Rihm and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and commissioned new compositions.

He authored scientific publications with topics including Henze, Messiaen, Rihm, music of the 20th century and the string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven.

Since 2013, he was artistic director of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize,[1][3] where he designed a promotion of the prizewinners and being chairman of the jury for composition.