 Those many rewards brought him international acclaim and keeps him extremely busy, since many symphony orchestras and opera theatres around the world invited him either to be their guest conductor or even become their visiting music director.From 1989 to 1992 he was the Director of the Picardy Sinfonietta in Amiens.In 1989 he conducted the Paris Opera Ballet in Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty", and also the gala re-opening concert at the Opéra Comique in Paris, with June Anderson and Rockwell Blake.