He has been awarded in the most prestigious international competitions: the Tchaikovsky in Moscow, the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels, and the one in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has worked with conductors of the stature of Chailly, Noseda, Ceccato, Eötvös, Jurowski, Denéve, and Neuhold, with orchestras from all over the world. He regularly plays on important international stages.
Composers such as Corghi, Francesconi, Vacchi, Galante, and Leyendecker have dedicated several contemporary works to him. He has also recorded albums with Deutsche Grammophon, Amadeus, Nuova Era, Dynamic, and Warehouse, etc. Recently, the Italian music magazine AMADEUS dedicated a cover to him for his latest Mozartian recording.
He is a professor at the Mannheim School of Music in Germany. He is regularly a member of the jury of the most prestigious competitions, such as the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, the Joachim in Hanover, or the Paganini in Genoa. He plays a “Baron Knoop” violin by Pietro Guarneri dating from 1743, owned by the Il Canale-ONLUS Foundation.
He is currently Professor of the Telefónica Violin Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.