EDUCATION

1982-85	Ph.D. "summa cum laude" in music analysis/musicology/psychology; University and Musikhochschule of Vienna interdisciplinary dissertation (musical hermeneutics/psychoanalysis)
1971-76	Magister Artium (Master of Arts equivalent) in Romance Literature and Philosophy, University of Munich, comparative-literature thesis on early-20th-century drama (Valle-Inclán, Maeterlinck, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg)
1971-75	Deutsches Staatsexamen (Master of Music equivalent) in piano performance, music theory/musicology, and piano pedagogy, Musikhochschule Stuttgart (piano class Wladimir Horbowski)
1975	International master classes with Prof Nikita Magaloff, Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva
1970	International master classes with Prof. Hans Leygraf, Mozarteum Salzburg
1967-71	Junior studies in piano performance, Musikhochschule Hamburg
1962-70	Gymnasium for Modern Languages, Hamburg; graduation with Abitur 1/1970

LANGUAGES

German and English (fluent), French and Spanish (fairly fluent), Latin and Italian (reading only)