After his studies at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, he made his conducting debut at the Hungarian State Opera in his early twenties. After graduation he studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and at the Bolchoi Theater with Yuri Simonov. In 1986 he won the János Ferencsik Memorial Prize and was the guest of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in England. Since 1984 he has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the North-Hungarian Symphony Orchestra of Miskolc, and due to his mastership he raised them to the highest level of performance within Hungary.