In 1999, he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and continued his musical studies there under the tutelage of Elza Kolodin until 2006.
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He received his very first piano lessons at the age of seven from his mother Elza Kolodin and the first feather in his musical cap at the Jugend Musiziert competition five years later, where he not only walked away with the first prize, but also the encouragement award from the Savings Bank for Outstanding Young Talents.