Born in Germany to a German mother from Silesia and an Amazigh father from Algeria, this conductor’s journey in music began early. He studied composition in Hannover with Professor A. Koerppen before pursuing conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Professor H.-H. Jöris and Professor M. Gielen.

At the age of 18, he started working as a répétiteur in Salzburg, and later in Leipzig, Mannheim, Bielefeld and Berlin. He went on to become an assistant conductor to some of the most renowned conductors of our time, including Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir George Solti, Michal Gielen, Pierre Boulez, and Daniel Barenboim.

From 2000 to 2013, he served as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim and "Staatskapellmeister" at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where he conducted more than 300 performances. His performances also took him to some of the most prestigious venues around the world, including Teatro alla Scala Milano, Metropolitan Opera New York, Semper Oper Dresden, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Royal Opera Copenhagen, Royal Opera Stockholm, Hamburger Staatsoper, New National Opera Tokyo, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, NDR, Bamberger Symphoniker, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

In 2002, he replaced Zubin Mehta with the Israel Philharmonic to conduct Salome by Richard Strauss, and in 2006, he once again stepped in at short notice to replace Daniel Barenboim as a conductor and soloist during a worldwide live broadcast on TV.

He has also performed with notable artists such as Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, Christine Schäfer, René Pape, Simone Kermes, Fabio Satori, and many others.

Throughout his career, this conductor has collaborated closely with Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and their music education project in the West Bank and Gaza. The project aims to bring together young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Middle Eastern countries to promote dialogue, understanding, and cooperation through music. In the recent years he gave several masterclasses for young conductors at the HMT Geneva, the Royal Academy of Music Copenhagen and the University of Arts Berlin.