Album Production with Bill Mays, Dean Johnson & Ron Vincent
Start of Studies: Master Big Band at HfMDK Frankfurt in Collaboration with the HR Big Band
Release of debut album „Postmodern Nostalgia“ with Concert Jazz Band

Member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra Germany (BuJazzO) - collaborations with Michael Gibbs, Maria Schneider, Miho Hazama, Jeff Beal, WDR Big Band
12th place German Charts with „Mädness“ and „Tribes of Jizu“ (Album: Mäd Löve)

Member of the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation’s „Knights at the Turntable“ (u.a. Dave Grusin, Barry Manilow, Wynton Marsalis, George Wein)

Jazz Composition Master studies at the University of Music Munich
Tour with „The Steadytones“ & Stranger Cole in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium & France
Concerts at the Jazzfest Rochester as representative of the University of Music Würzburg

Saxophonist & arranger for Keller Steff Big Band, Duncan Woods & the Epicureans

Year abroad at the Eastman School of Music Rochester (NY)
Saxophonist & arranger for the New Jazz Ensemble (Dave Rivello) & Jazz Ensemble (Bill Dobbins) at Eastman School of Music

Scholarship from the Gerry & Franca Mulligan Foundation
Featured guest with Ryan Keberle’s Big Band Legacy Project at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola (NYC)
Musical accompaniment for „Masters of the Univers“ with Thomas Spitzer & Hazel Brugger

Saxophonist & arranger/composer for the Groove Legend Orchestra (Nuremberg)
1st prize with the Pensen Jazz Orchestra at the „Bundeswehr“ big band competition

Private studies in New York City - lessons with Gary Smulyan, Paul Nedzela, Ronnie Cuber

Jazz Saxophone Bachelor at the University of Music Würzburg
Saxophonist with the Bavarian & Saxony-Anhalt Youth Jazz Orchestra - collaborations with Marco Lobo, Jay Ashby, Kim Nazarian, Fred Sjöberg, Shantala Subramanyam & Ensemble Bhakti

Saxophonist for the University Big Band Regensburg - Tour in Germany & Switzerland with Sheila Rate Charles & Uros Perich

Timo Verbole, Axel Kühn, Steffen Schorn, Michael Lutzeier, Hubert Winter, Klaus Graf, Gary Smulyan, Paul Nedzela, Karsten Gorzel, Ronnie Cuber, Charles Pillow, Bill Dobbins, Dave Rivello, Clay Jenkins, Gregor Huebner, Christian Elsaesser, Victor Alcántara, Klaus Wagenleiter, Ansgar Striepens, Harold Danko, Maria Schneider, Miho Hazama, Michael Wollny, Dariusz Terefenko, Michael League, Branford Marsalis, Tim Hagans

Kenny Washington, Peter Washington, Ryan Keberle, Ted Rosenthal, Carl Maraghi, Scott Robinson, Gary Versace, Shantala Subramanyam & Ensemble Bhakti, Leszek Zadlo, Sheila Raye Charles, Mario Marzi, Kim Nazarian, Jay Ashby, Marco Lobo, Ack Van Royen, Torsten Maaß, Stranger Cole, Dusko Goykovich, Gary Versace, Klaus Doldinger, Steve Wilson, Dave Pietro, Chris Rogers, Mike Rodriguez, WDR Big Band