 Thereafter he attended the International Piano Academy Lake Como and the Conservatory of the Italian Switzerland (Lugano) as a Theo Lieven scholar, where he was studying with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, and Stanislav Ioudenitch.He completed his Master's degree with Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.He is a scholarship holder of the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, and was also a member of the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy.