In opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and Glyndebourne on Tour have played a substantial role in his career,  having led performances of Turn of the Screw, Così fan tutte, Rusalka, Carmen, The Yellow Sofa, Mavra and Renard . He has also worked at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Opera North, Volksoper Wien, Canadian Opera Company and Opéra de Lyon. After studies at Oxford University and the Sibelius Academy, he was Kapellmeister at the Meiningen State Theatre and Assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.

His appearances as a guest conductor in recent seasons include concerts with such orchestras as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Royal Scottish National and the RTVE Symphony Madrid. This is his ENO debut.