He then continued his education with Michael Gielen at Mozarteum University Salzburg Summer Academy, Ferdinand Leitner at Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena and Hiroyuki Iwaki and Edo de Waart at the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Masterclass in Hilversum and Amsterdam.

[citation needed] Additionally, he was John Eliot Gardiner's assistant at numerous projects in Berlin, Hamburg, Lisbon, London and Vienna, mainly at recordings for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, but also on tours, at concerts and opera performances.

[citation needed] In 2002 he became artistic director of Graz Chamber Philharmonic with which he has been giving many concerts with works by Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn in Burgenland, Carinthia and Styria.

[1] He prepared the offstage music for the Sir John Eliot Gardiner recording of Percy Grainger’s, The Warriors: An Imaginary Ballet for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft and collaborated several times with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF.

[2] His collaborations with other artists include pianist Nick van Bloss,[3] violinists Thomas Gould and Leonard Schreiber, cellist Aleksei Kiseliov, guitarist Johanna Beisteiner[4][5] and singers Barbara Bonney, Rainer Trost, Cheryl Studer and Bryn Terfel.