He has won numerous competitions, including in 1966 a third Prize at the ARD Competition. From 1968 to 1974 he studied organ in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain, Maurice Duruflé and Jean Guillou. He developed a reputation as a performer of both French Romanticism and as an improviser. In 1974 he was appointed to the chair of organ at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and was appointed head of the department of church music. Until 1976, he also led a piano class. In 1976, he was appointed both head of the organ department at the Catholic University of America and "artist in residence" at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He returned to his position in Würzburg in 1978.
