1970 | 1980 My Conducting Dreams Come True
- April 1972 - Makes his official conducting debut in Hamburg with Bruckner's Third Symphony
- November 1975 - Makes his American conducting debut in San Francisco
- September 1978 - Named to his first Music Directorship at the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in Ludwigshafen, Germany
- 1978 - Conducts his first opera performance (La Traviata) at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt (Germany)

