In 1960, graduated from the Odessa Special Stolyarsky Music School, and in 1968 from the Odessa State A. V. Nezhdanova Conservatory (now - Odessa National Music Academy).
From 1970, worked at the Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 1977 to 1980 he was the first director of the newly created Krasnoyarsk Opera House.
In 1980 he returned to the Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre to the position of principal conductor. In 1986 he organized and headed the Odessa Chamber Orchestra.
He worked with the National Ballet Symphony Orchestra in London, was the principal conductor of the Moscow City Ballet, conducted the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the Radio Israel Orchestra, the Brno Opera Orchestra, and orchestras in Great Britain and Brazil.