In August 1987 he represented Soviet Union at the International Music Festival in Nyírbátor, Hungary where he performed Tchaikovsky's Souvenir d'un lieu cher.
In November 1987 he won the competition for the performance of Mendelssohn's violin concerto in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions.
In 1997 he completed Advanced Instrumental Studies Course with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
While living in London between 2005 and 2010 he wrote a book of memoirs Impressions and translated into Russian E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End and Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
In December 2014 he was awarded the 1st prize in the prose category for that year by Chicago based Russian language literary magazine Lexicon for his 2011 short story Translator Sergey.