From 1973 to 1976 he was a master student for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.
From 1969 to 1973 he worked as an editor at the Deutscher Verlag für Musik in Leipzig.
He was a teacher of the Halle composers class and from 1987 an honorary lecturer at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Until 1995 he directed the Society of Composers of Saxony-Anhalt and the contemporary music festival Hallische Musiktage.
In 1979 he composed the Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in One Movement as the opening concert at the Handel Festival, Halle.