He studied composition with Gérard Grisey in Paris. He was resident at the Villa Medici / French academy in Rome and in Berlin with the DAAD Artist program. His works, published by Billaudot and Ricordi Germany, have been performed by l'Itinéraire, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, the Argento Ensemble, the Habanera Quartet, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Symphony orchestra (among others). He won the 2004 Förderpreis from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for music. He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns-Eisler in Berlin (Germany), and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Columbia University in New York (USA). He lives in New York and Berlin. Website