In the artist's words:

During and after his studies, Christoph Bartn worked as a freelance musician and conductor as well as a lecturer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and the University of Siegen. In 2004, he won a prize at the Passau International Brass Competition.

During his studies, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen introduced him to yoga and meditation. In 2004, he completed his four-year BDY yoga teacher training at the GGF Düsseldorf with Leopoldo Chariarse, and in 2013 he completed his "^TaKeTiNa® Advanced Training" with Reinhard Flatischler.

He has been giving workshops and courses in yoga since 2004 and in TaKeTiNa® rhythm ^education since 2007, including at the "Peter Ostwald Institute for Musicians' Health" at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, the "green room for artists", Munich Conservatory, Basel Conservatory and Mozarteum Salzburg. In the ^TaKeTiNa® field, he works intensively with his colleague Ranvita Hahn, with whom he also founded the Ensemble Entrance in 2019, with whom they can be heard regularly in concerts and at sound events. Further information can be found at www.rhythmuskreis.de.