At the age of six he began learning cello at the Moscow Conservatory and then moved with his family to Berlin, where he attended the Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
[1][2][3] In September 2004, he was assistant conductor of Parsifal at the Genoan Teatro Carlo Felice under the guidance of Harry Kupfer and then conducted Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges with Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana.
Later, with the Munich Radio Orchestra, he conducted Rimsky-Korsakov's operas Mozart and Salieri and The Golden Cockerel followed by Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and another production of Love for Three Oranges.
He also played a gala concert in Parma and was a guest conductor at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, where he performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.
[2] In 2007 to 2008 he conducted Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia and made various appearances with Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma as well as giving a New Year's Day's performance in New York City.