After only one year of intensive practice, he was accepted at the Gnesin School of Music for highly gifted children.
He moved to Austria in 1991, where he took up a professorial position at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz.
Satz performed in the former Soviet Union, Austria, Italy, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan.
He also taught master classes in chamber music within the European Mozart Academy in Eastern Europe.
Famous pupils of Satz include Boris Berezovsky, Amandine Savary, Yevgeny Sudbin, and Lilya Zilberstein.