 In 1983 he won the first prize of the International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition in Seregno, Italy, and in 1984, he won the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Competition.He debuted in the 1987 Proms, performing Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto along with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.In the course of his UK concert career, he has performed with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Mozart Players, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Dublin's Orchestra of St. Cecilia, with whom he performed Mozart's 21 piano concertos over the years 1995 – 1998.