In 1971 he became conductor-in-chief of the Karelian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and two years later became assistant conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine following by becoming music director there in 1977.
[3] Between 1977 and 1987 he performed in various European cities such Russian Moscow and Saint Petersburg as well as German Berlin, Düsseldorf and Nuremberg, ending with Dublin, Kraków and Sofia.
From 1990-91, he became Istanbul State Opera conductor with which he performed in such European capitals as Berlin, Prague, Bratislava, Copenhagen, as well as Brno, in Italy.
[3] He also recorded numerous works of Frédéric Chopin, Giya Kancheli, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and Aram Khachaturian for labels such as Chandos, Hyperion and Olympia Records.
He appeared with numerous well-known Russian musicians such as Daniil Shafran, Grigory Sokolov, Vladimir Spivakov and Maxim Vengerov, as well as the Latvian Gidon Kremer and the Cypriot Martino Tirimo.