- Won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition.
- In 2013 he was appointed Professor of Piano at the Hannover Conservatory of Music.
- Was a major promoter of education founding a program Rhapsody in School which brings his colleagues to schools across Germany and Austria.
- Was named Music Director of Orchestre de Chambre de Paris in July 2020.
- He founded his own chamber festival in the village of Heimbach near Cologne in 1998.
- Worked with major orchestras including the Zürcher Kammerorchester, Camerata Salzburg, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony.
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