I have studied traverso at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague with Wilbert Hazelzet. I began making flutes in 1994, after a one year apprenticeship with Peter van der Poel. In the years 1995-1998 worked at the Gemeente Museum in The Hague, were I was compiling a catalogue of the Baroque flutes in the collection, as well as doing conservation work of various woodwinds. This was a wonderful opportunity to be in close contact with a relatively large collection of very interesting instruments and enabled me to appreciate the old makers' wonderful work at close hand. A lot of the flutes I copy are from this collection.

Apart from being a maker I also play traverso professionally as a member of several chamber music groups, performing music from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries on period instruments. This gives me a first-hand experience with the instruments I make and enables me to experiment with the artistic qualities of the new models I make in a musical context. One of the groups with which I work, the The Modena Consort, is a renaissance traverso consort performing the repertoire of late fifteenth and sixteenth-century music. The group is composed of four traverso players, including myself. This ensemble was and continues to be a helpful source for experimenting with the music and the instruments. This has helped me to better understand the originals I copy, in terms of internal tuning, range and sound colour, and has greatly contributed to improving my instruments.

In the year 2000-2001 I was engaged in research on romantic flutes and focused on the work of the Viennese woodwind workshop of Stephan Koch (fl. 1807-1828). During the following year I have examined and measured a great number of flutes made by the Koch workshop, and was able to establish guidelines for dating them, as well as learn about their special playing characteristics.

In the summer of 2004 I moved back to Israel, where I work in the beautiful and inspiring town of Jaffa. The workshop is now located in an old Ottoman-style house with a lot more space for work and living. I am still traveling abroad for exhibitions, see coming exhibitions for more information.