 This was closely followed by the second prize and a special prize at the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg and further international prizes at Kloster Schöntal and the Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar, both in Germany.In June 2012 he was the recipient of the Szymon Goldberg Award of the Music Academy in Messen as the youngest participant in all age divisions.He was a prizewinner at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University in 2011 and was invited to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Ciaconna at the Prizewinners' Concert during the Salzburg Festival.