[1] He won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental soloist with Orchestra for his recording of Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony.
[2] He left the Chicago Symphony in July 2004 due to musician's focal dystonia which had begun within two years of his assuming the first chair.
During a tour of the Far East with the orchestra, he found his fingers would no longer allow him to play at his finest level throughout a symphony by Tchaikovsky, and asked to resign.
[3] However, he was denied tenure in the CSO in April 2017 as a result of not passing the mandatory probation period.
[5] In May 2024, he was terminated from the orchestra, due to "deeply troubling comments posted online".