He studied composition of electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, and since 1989 has participated in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen to study the art of the sound direction.
He further studied sonology and electroacoustic composition in 1991–92 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Netherlands.
In 1996, he participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough.
During the spring term of 2003 he was the Edgar Varèse Guest Professor at Technische Universität Berlin.
[1] During the last few years he has been invited to give master classes in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Budapest, Darmstadt, Florence, Milano and Rome.