 As a boy soloist (alto) and young male voice, he sang with the Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir and attended the musical high school in Stegen near Freiburg.From 1999 to 2001 he was a young student at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg under Bernd Göpfert, where he studied singing and vocal pedagogy from 2002.From 2004 to 2009, he continued his studies with Rudolf Piernay at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London, where he graduated with distinction.