Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI since 2009. He studied composition and conducting in Bratislava, St. Petersburg with Ilya Musin and Paris. 2005 saw his debut with Orchestre National de France. In the following seasons he led the Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Swedish Radio, Oslo Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome. He made his US debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Washington. Since 2011 he conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala in Milan, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. In 2011-2012 with his Rai Orchestra he made a tour to the Musikverein Vienna, the Philharmonie in Berlin, to the Enescu Festival in Bucarest, to the Abu Dhabi Classics with soloist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2013-2014 he conducted opera productions (Puccini´s Madama Butterfly and Prokofiev’s The Love for three Oranges) at the Maggio Musicale in Florence. In recent years he conducted productions of Turandot at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Jenůfa at Teatro Comunale in Bologna.