In 1963, he made his public debut with piano music by Béla Bartók and attracted the attention of the press with "his seventh sense for agogical nuance, a skill that is almost impossible to learn" (Rheinische Post).
In 1968, he continued his pianistic studies in master classes with Professors Günter Ludwig, Hansotto Schmidt and Alfons Kontarsky at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
[1] After completing his pianistic studies, he played his first own three-part piano cycle with the main works of Robert Schumann in combination with works by other composers exclusively on Bösendorfers from 1976 to 1980 after a guest performance in 1974 in the series of Heinersdorff - Matinéen Düsseldorf and sparked enthusiastic reviews in the press, also because of the unfolding of the unique sound of the Viennese grand pianos.
The Badische Nachrichten wrote of a central musical event and reported on a phenomenal piano performance.
Recordings were made on concert grand pianos by Steinway & Sons, Bösendorfer, Blüthner and a first production of the S series by Yamaha, personally selected by the pianist.