is a brassplayer,composer/arranger and instrumental teacher from Styria/Austria. As a player of high & low Brassinstruments he is/was member of several Jazz-, Rock-, Blues-, Cabaret-, Theatermusic-, Worldmusic- and Free-Impro-Emsembles since the 80ies – from Belgium to China and Netherlands to Italy. And there was a lot of constructive cooperation with honorable colleagues like Alan Praskin, Lee Harper, Ewald Oberleitner, Dieter Glawischnig, Leo Lukas, Wolfram Dix, Reinhard P.Gruber, Irene S., Berndt Luef, Andrea Schramek, Erhard ;Ishi’ Koren etc.
As an instructed music-writer he worked for very different ensembles – from chambermusical duo to symphonic orchestra. And he’s running a few formations of his own, for example a blowers- projekt named ‚SMART METAL HORNETS’ – Member of V:NM since 2018.
CW lives and works in eastern Styria since 1990.

Since the first decade of the 21st century he is performing as free improviser for mainly two reasons: Communication in this special free way, and the fact that there is no need of perfection, which does not exist in any other musical genre! Which does’nt mean that there is no need for quality…