[5] In season 2021/22 he made his conducting debuts at the Metropolitan Opera with Le Nozze di Figaro,[6] the Komische Oper Berlin with Die Zauberflöte,[7] and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra.
[9] In season 2022/23 Mr. Pfeffer will return to the New Israeli Opera to conduct Theodor - a new opera in Hebrew by Yonatan Cnaan and Ido Ricklin focusing on two periods in the early life of the prophet of the State of Israel, Theodor Herzl,[10] and will also make his conducting debut with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of works by Schubert, Liszt and Lajtha.
[15] Pfeffer completed his Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting as a student of Alan Gilbert at The Juilliard School, as a recipient of the Bruno Walter Scholarship.
He holds a Master's degree and Professional Studies Diplomas in Piano Performance and in Orchestral Conducting from Mannes College of Music, and is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
[13] Among his teachers were Gideon Hatzor, Vadim Monastyrski, Pnina Salzman, Victor Rosenbaum, Carl Schachter, Michael Wolpe, André Hajdu, Claude Frank, Byron Janis, Alan Gilbert, James Levine, and Richard Goode.