Austrian/Swiss organist, pianist and composer. in aeroplane, August 6, 1951. She studied composition, the organ and the piano in Vienna, Paris and Frankfurt. In 1979 she won the Theodor Koerner Stiftung Composition Prize and the prize of the Vienna Art Fund. From 1980 to 1983 she won scholarships from the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna, the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basle, the Austrian government and Aargau, Switzerland. She works as a freelance composer.