[1] He studied singing at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Bruce Abel, and further at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Aldo Baldin.

He appeared there in 1990 as Noboku in Henze's Das verratene Meer, repeating the role in the first production of the opera in Italy at the Teatro Lirico in Milan a year later.

[1] He appeared as a guest at European opera houses and festivals, singing Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at both the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna Volksoper, and David in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at La Monnaie in Brussels, where he also performed in the world premiere of Boesman's Reigen in 1993.

[1] He first appeared at the Royal Opera House in 2001, as Orfeo in Haydn's L'anima del filosofo, followed by a concert performance of Richard Strauss's Daphne as Leukippos.

He also performed there the double role of Tenor and Bacchus in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and as Alexy Ivanovitch in Prokofiev's The Gambler.