Portrait

I am a professional pianist, guitarist, and composer with an academic degree. I live in Switzerland, and have been a freelance musician since 1998. I master two instruments at the same high level, something rare for a professional musician. On the guitar, I present the Touch Technique, mastered by only very few guitarists, in which one plays the guitar as a pianist.

" The music was already there - one must only bring down it from above "

Techniques for composition, improvisation, and playing for both piano and guitar were especially developed, researched and refined to their fullest. Since 2008, regular Farbmusik concerts have been taking place. These are events where all colors are presented individually in one evening (1-4 hours) or in a sequence of concerts. The effect of music is highlighted with light. The focus of Farbmusik lies on the colors, so it cannot be categorized into common genres. That is why Farbmusik contains very different pieces of music, and styles that range between classical and modern music.

Composing music related to colors I have focused on spectral colors because they are the sum of the light which can be seen by human beings and therefore are the sum of human emotions. Looking at it that way, spectral colors are the sum of all human emotions. But every color has different shades of intensity and vibrance. That's the reason why not every " red " as an example sounds the same. So a lighter red can be felt in a comprehensive way and a darker red more energetic and dramatic. Colors can even be mixed in one piece of music if needed. The colors " white " and " black " are not possible. White is the sum of all colors and Black is the absence of all colors.

Philosophy

For a long time I thought about what the origin of many human problems could be, on scales both small and large. When colors are not in balance, they can cause the negative effects we can observe each day. So I set myself the task of creating a type of music that could facilitate access to all inner emotions, to bring them again into balance. I have always had a talent to see colors and pictures in music and to implement them intuitively. The idea of Farbmusik was born.

Music, colors, and emotions are to me closely connected with each other. The sum of all visible light must also represent the sum of all accessible emotions. With this approach, I began my research. Seven years passed ( 2003 - 2010 ) until everything was finished, and a first CD series with 7 CDs could be published. Farbmusik contains only spectral colors, because according to my approach, they also include the whole spectrum of emotions.

Credits

  • 1999 - 2005 : Various mandates in Swiss Universities of Music - ACM ( today ZKdK ) and WIAM.
  • Various guest mandates in guitar workshops in other music schools.
  • 1999 - today : Countless professional concerts and shows as guitarist in various cover bands and since 2005 concerts in Germany and abroad.
  • SMPV ( Swiss Music Pedagogical Association ) Accreditation ( authorization ) 1999 - 2007 for private university education and SMPV consulting and teaching activities.
  • Featured online instuctor at guitartricks.com ( 2006 - 2012 ), featured online instructor at Gibson.com ( 2007 ) and support of over 80000 students online.
  • Running a successful guitar channel on YouTube under the name HPCrazy with currently over 27000 subscribers, over 100000 visitors / month and over 600000 viewed minutes / month. ( Feb 2020 ).
  • Presence of my music in TV and film productions on Swiss television, BBC, ABC and many others.
  • Streams on Spotify and YouTube with songs that reached 150000 streams - one on YouTube reached 1.5 Mio streams.