[1] Born into a family of musicians in the Romanian city of Satu Mare, he began studying the violin at seven, and moved with his family to Montreal at the age of 13, where he enrolled in the Joseph-François Perrault High School.
[2] At sixteen, he was invited by Yannick Nézet-Séguin to attend rehearsals of the Orchestre Métropolitan.
In 2013, he was awarded the Prix-Opus Discovery of the Year and was appointed to his first position as Assistant Director-in-Residence at the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec under Fabien Gabel, and in 2014,[2][1] at 22, he was appointed assistant conductor to Paavo Järvi at the Orchestre de Paris in France.
[5] He made his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale in a program of Stravinsky and Poulenc in June 2019.
[6] He has also conducted the Tokyo Symphony, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and Opéra de Lausanne.