In 1987 he traveled to the United States on a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied with Seiji Ozawa, and won the Davidoff Special Prize at a competition in Schleswig-Holstein.
He traveled to the United States on a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Festival. This was in 1987. He studied with Seiji Ozawa. He won the Davidoff Special Prize at a competition in Schleswig-Holstein.