He made his debut at the age of twelve, playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
He later studied piano with Yevgeny Malinin and conducting with Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Conservatory, and was a pupil of the Russian pianist Lazar Berman for almost five years.
His recording of the complete works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps with violist Thomas Selditz was awarded the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" in 2003.
He performs regularly with violinists Judith Ingolfsson and Mark Peskanov, with the cellist Peter Bruns and with the Robert Schumann String Quartet.
[3] The Washington Post has talked about his “protean range of expression” and Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin called his performance as “enthralling and atmospherically dense.” “Unforgettable!” commented the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung after a solo concert.