some important projects and groups:

Landesjugend Jazzorchester NRW, Trio Sadba with Friedrich Kullmann and Jochen Schmidt - Cantiére d’elle Arte with Hans Werner Henze, Montepulciano Italien -  Quintett „Key“ with Markus Stockhausen and Hugo Read, Christoph Spendel Group -  Michael Sagmeister Trio 1980 till today!! -  Sagmeister Spendel Group Deutsches Jazzfestival 1980 - Peter Gigers Family of Percussion - Maria João Quintett - Ko-Wulu - Lumpp-Read-Küttner - Otto Wolters Innovation Group - Family of Percussion + Albert Mangelsdorff and Wolfgang Dauner - Harvie Swartz / Sheila Jordan Quartett - A.Mangelsdorff and the Members - JATO - „West Side Story“ Opera Bonn - Soloconcerts „Pictures out of a Drumbook“ 

performances and recordings with :
Charlie Mariano, Steve Swallow, Trilok Gurtu, Markus Stockhausen, Kenny Wheeler, Nana Vasconcelos, Don Cherry, Jiggs Whigham, Dom Um Romão, Mustafa Tettey Addy, Zakir Hussein, U.K. Sivaraman, Gunnar Plümer, Christof Spendel, Michail Urbaniak, Uli Beckerhoff, Allan Praskin, Christof Lauer, Tony Lakatos, Thomas Heidepriem, Dave Liebman, WDR-Bigband, Mike Manieri, Lee Konitz, Dave King, Pat Martino, Radio Orchestra WDR, Gene Perla

Tours and Concerts in:
Austria, Belgium, Danmark, Germany, France, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukrainia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Mozambique, USA


Tours for the German Cultural Institut Goethe in:
Marokko, Tunesia, Algeria, Senegal, Ivorycoast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Camerun, Zaire, Kasachstan, Kirkisia Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Kambodia, Myan Mar (Burma), Thailand, Malaysia, Singapur, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kroatia, Lithuania and Hungary

Radio and TV appearences:
Belgian Broadcast, Bavarian Broadcast, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle,  Hessischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestfunk, Radio Warszaw, Radio Cidade Maputo, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARD, ZDF, BR, HR3, SWF3, TV SINGAPUR, TV CAMERUN, Radio TV LATVIA

international Festivals:
International Jazzfestival Freiburg, Tentfestival Freiburg, German Jazzfestival Frankfurt, Jazzhausfestival Köln, Jazzfest Burghausen, International Festival in Tanzbrunnen Köln, Theaterhausfestival Stuttgart, Internationalü Jazzfestival Szeged, Jazzfestival Bern, Internationalü Jazzfestival Zürich, Jazz Jambouree in Warsawa, Marlboro Festival in Rotterdam, Jazzfestival Leverkusen, International Jazz Yatra in Bombay New Delhi Kalkutta, Tal Vatja Utsav in Bombay and New Delhi, Jazz meets Timbila in Maputo Moçambique, 10. Internationales Drummermeeting in Koblenz, New Music Festival in Riga, Internationales Jazzfestival Maputo Moçambique, Baltic Drummersummit  and Jazzfestival Saulkrasti, „Friends Across the Border“-Project Mosambik / South Afrika, International Jazzfestival in Almati, Modern Jazzfestival Zagreb, International Percussion Festival Ukmerge - Lithuania