Education
2017-2021 Studies in Composition-Music Theatre at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Klaus Lang, with distinction (thesis – These Roads Will Never End: Opening temporal windows to sonic dimensions)
2017-2021 Studies in Computer Music at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Marko Ciciliani (thesis – The missing piece: boredom and “non-games” in ludified audivisual composition)
2013-2017 Doctoral studies in Composition/Computermusic at the University of Calgary with David Eagle (dissertation: The Woman and the Lyre)
2011-2013 Studies in Composition at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) with Keith Hamel and Bob Pritchard
2008-2010 Studies in Music Technology and Composition at the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR, USA) with Jeffrey Stolet, Robert Kyr, and David Crumb
Workshops and Residencies
Participation in and Premieres at Darmstadt International Summer Courses (2016, 2018), Impuls Festival Academy, Graz, Austria, (2017, 2019), Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, USA (2016), ChampdAction/LabO, Antwerp, Belgium (2020)
Selected fellow at ComposIT festival, Rieti, Italy (2014), WasteLAnd Summer Academy, Los Angeles, California (2019), Crossroads New Music Festival, Salzburg, Austria (2019), Kalv Festival Academy, Kalv, Sweden (2020), reMusik.org Festival Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia (2021), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (2022)
Artistic Activity
2011-present, work as freelance composer
Performances at Wien Modern (Austria), Ars Electronica Linz (Austria), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), International Computer Music Conference (Greece, South Korea), Impuls (Austria), Darmstadt Summer Courses (Germany), Musikprotokoll Graz (Austria), Tonraum21 (Austria), ComposIt (Italy), Mirkofest Helsinki (Finland), Microtonal Festival Prague (Czech Republic), Espacios Sonoros (Argentina), Audio Mostly (Austria), New Music Edmonton (Canada), Riverrun Festival (France), Tokyo to New York (USA/Japan), WasteLAnd (USA), ESC Graz (Austria), Musica Viva Festival (Portugal), and various others, including self organized concert series and online performances
Collaborations with performers such as Kerstin Petersen, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Tea Kulaš, Helena Sorokina, Alena Kiszter, Flirty Horse, Thomas Piercy, Miyama McQueen-Tokita, Lixue-Lin Seidler, Heather Ryall, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, sféra ensemble, Jonathan Heilbron, Rebecca Lane, Erik Drescher, Szilárd Benes, UltraViolet Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Peyee Chen, Kymatic Ensemble, Ghost Ensemble, WasteLAnd Ensemble, airborne extended, Mirko Jevtovic, Carla Rees, Gavin Stewart, Felicita Brusoni, Maurice Quartet, Vôjtech Šembera, and many others.
Teaching Experience
Visiting University Instructor, Video Game Music, University of Oregon (2012-2013), University of Calgary (2016), Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon (2017)
Teaching Fellow, University of Calgary (2013-2017), Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Arts, Post-tonal theory
Teaching Fellow, University of British Columbia (2011-2013), Computer Music and Music Technology
Professional activity
2022-present, co-founder and president, Zeitschleife Verein
2022, co-developer, prototyping project with support of Kunsuniversität Graz
2021-present, co-founder and artistic researcher, Organon: Contemporary Renaissance of Organ Music
2021-present, founder and owner, Verlag Zeitschleife
2020-present, member of Die Andere Saite, Graz, Austria
2017-present, founder and member of facere collective, Graz, Austria
2017, Production Assistant for Harmonic Laboratory, Eugene, Oregon, USA
2014, Audiovisual Assistant, Canadian New Music Network Documentation Team
2012, Programmer, Music Technology Teaching Resources (MuTTeR) project
Awards
2024 Special recognition award, Gustav Mahler Kompositionspreis
2024 Staatsstipendium Komposition, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
2023 Kompoistionsforderung, SKE-fonds
2022 Drittmittelprojekt, Prototypenförderung, Kunstuniversität Graz
2022 Projektförderung, Das Land Steiermark
2022 Projektförderung, Kulturamt der Stadt Graz
2021, 2022 Kompoistionstipendium, Bundeskanzleramt, Österreich
2020 Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz
2020 Forum Wallis Selection
2017 Transformative Talent Grant
2017, 2014-15 Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship
2015 Chancellor’s Challenge Graduate Scholarship
2014 Elsie Mary Bell Graduate Scholarship in Music