Born in Metz, in France, he began studying the oboe at a very young age at the national conservatory of Metz with Serge Haerrig and André Sablon. He quickly continued in Paris and already in 1996 he obtained the first prize in the class of Jean-Claude Jaboulay at the Paris Conservatory; he was then admitted to the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, studying with Jean-Louis Capezzali, Jacques Tys, David Walter and Frédéric Tardy, where he obtained a unanimous first prize in 2000. From 2001, he successfully undertook admission to the soloist Master degree with Maurice Bourgue, still at the CNSM in Paris. Decisive year since he won numerous international awards, winning the Petritoli, Toulon and even the Prague Spring competitions.
Then began a relevant and uninterrupted international career and was invited as Principal Oboe in the greatest European orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerischen Staatsoper, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Philharmonic of Radio France. In this capacity and in this field, he has collaborated and collaborates with the greatest conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Harding, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Metha, Yuri Termikanov, Kurt Mazur, Charles Dutoit, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly.
In 2004, he became Principal Oboe of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and of the Filarmonica della Scala until recently, in 2022, received Principal Oboe at the Orchestra dell’Accdemia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
In addition to an intense concert activity, he demonstrates a strong interest in teaching by giving numerous masterclasses all over the world such as in Japan, Colombia and Europe. As such, he was invited by Jean-Louis Capezzali and Jérôme Guichard to teach oboe at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique de Lyon before becoming a principal professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, also actively collaborating with the Royal College of Music of London. Today, he joins the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne.
