A pupil of Ilya Musin, and later of Valery Gergiev, he has been Principal Associate Conductor of The Hermitage Orchestra for ten years and is Artistic Director of the "Spanish Evenings Festival" in Saint Petersburg.
On the invitation of Gergiev, he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theater, conducting Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
His repertoire also includes contemporary and rarely performed music, especially Spanish.
He has conducted the first recording of José Lidón's 1792 opera, Glaura y Cariolano.
As a composer his catalogue includes symphonic and chamber music, solo works, voice cycles and the Chamber Opera "Frida y Diego" of which he recently presented some fragments at Casa de México in Spain.