sentences:  In 1989 he won second prize in the Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1994 he won the first prize of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.In 2002 he received the Young Talent Award and the International Klavierfestival Ruhr.He has performed with major French orchestras under the conductors Myung-Whun Chung and David Robertson.