He studied with Karen Englund (harpsichord) and Jesper Bøje Christensen (figured bass) at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock in London.
He has a career as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, North and South America and Japan.
He appears regularly with singer Emma Kirkby, violinist John Holloway and cellist and gambist Jaap ter Linden.
He has recorded for Archiv Produktion (3rd harpsichord in Bach's 3- and 4-harpsichord concerti with The English Concert), harmonia mundi, Kontrapunkt and da capo and his recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations won him a Diapason d'Or.
He was professor of harpsichord and performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich from 1996 to 1999.