[1] His conducting career began in 1989 when he was invited by Leonard Bernstein on two European tours one of which was at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival where he performed with Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Besides those operas he is well known for production of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville as well as The Merry Widow operetta of Franz Lehar and Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, among other well respected works.
[2] In 1985 he conducted Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos which was performed in Spoleto and next year became a conductor of another Gioachino Rossini's work called La Cenerentola in Aspen.
In 2004 he became a successor to Leopold Hager at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in the Austrian capital of Vienna which was previously hosted by Clemens Krauss and Hans Swarowsky respectively.
[1] His works of Lili Boulanger were published by Timpani Records and won him Editor’s Choice and Choc de repertoire awards in France, England and the United States.