festivals and competitions
2023 CMMAS, Morelia - Pink Noise Ensemble: burnishing (ensemble, electronics)
2023 FIMNME 2023, Mexico City - Pink Noise Ensemble: burnishing (ensemble, electronics)
2023 Yarn/Wire Festival, New York: drypoint (quartet, electronics)
2022 Mise-En-Music Festival, New York - Ensemble Mise-En: unverified (trio)
2021 ICST Zurich: Synchron-Asynchron #4: Ensemble soyuz21: bleed (trio, electronics)
2021 11th M.C.M.E Academy in Tchaikovsky-city - Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble: grammage (duo)
2021 Ensemble Tempus Konnex - Lockdown Diary #17: rational choices (ensemble)
2020-2021 Ensemblefestival für aktuelle Musik 2020 Leipzig - 2nd prize with rational choices (ensemble)
2020 reMusik.org Festival, St. Petersburg - Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble: rational choices (ensemble)
2019 15th Sun River Prize, Students’ New Music Composition Competition - 3rd prize with verhalten (trio)
2019 Thailand International Composition Festival, Bangkok - Hong Kong New Music Ensemble: unverified (trio)
2019 Mise-En-Music Festival, New York - Ensemble Mise-En: guilty pleasure (ensemble)
2019 ZfGM Festival, Leipzig - Ensemble Tempus Konnex: not alike (ensemble)
2019 XII Winter Arts Festival, Young Composers Competition, Sochi - 3rd prize with Verhältnisse (piano trio)
2019 CEME Festival and Academy, Tel-Aviv - Meitar Ensemble: diffidence (woodwind trio)
2018 and 2019 Ticino Musica Festival and Academy, Lugano: Ensemble Modern: rational choices (ensemble)
2018 5th Myaskovsky Competition of Young Composers, Moscow: semifinalist with not alike (piano)
2017 Stockhausen Mastercourses and Concerts, Kürten near Köln: selected for performance of Stockhausen - Klavierstück VIII
awards
2023 CUNY DSRG Research Grant
2021 ICST Zurich: Polytempo Research Residency and new piece for Ensemble soyuz21
2020 Ensemblefestival für aktuelle Musik 2020 Leipzig - 2nd prize with rational choices
2019 15th Sun River Prize, Chengdu, China - 3rd prize with verhalten
2019 XI Winter Arts Festival Sochi - 3rd prize with Verhältnisse
Talent Development Scholarship (CUHK)
Reaching Out Award (HKSAR)
Studentship Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016 Erasmus+ grant
2014-2017 Deutschlandstipendium (Scholarschip by the German Government)
conferences and guest lectures
2023 Unlearning Realities – Reimagining Futures Symposium, Lasalle University of the Arts Singapore
2023 Guest Lecture: Modes of Creativity in a Digitized Culture, National Conservatory of Music Mexico City
2023 Art Science Connect Graduate Student Showcase: AI-Noise and The Promise of Reversibility, CUNY Graduate Center
2023 Manhattan International Composers Conference, CUNY Graduate Center
2023 Host: Innovation Sound Technology Series (Art Science Connect)
2022 Guest Lecture: Composition Seminar, Mahidol University College of Music, Bangkok
education
since 2021 PhD studies in Composition - New York City (CUNY Graduate Center)
Doctor of Music - Hong Kong (CUHK)
Meisterklassenexamen (Consecutive Expanding Master’s) in Composition - Leipzig (HMT), Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
Master of Arts in Composition - Zürich (ZHdK)
Transcultural Collaboration - Zürich (ZHdK) and Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts in Piano - München (HFMuT)
Erasmus (Piano) - Helsinki (Sib-A)
State Examination in Music and Mathematics - Frankfurt/M (HfMdK, Goethe University)
teaching experience
New York City, Baruch College: lecture: Music in Civilization
Hong Kong, CUHK: assistant/tutorial: Composition III, Orchestral Techniques, Creative Collaboration
Leipzig (HMT): seminar: Mathematical Applications within the Compositional Process
Leipzig (HMT): seminar: Introduction to Advanced Contemporary Instrumental Techniques