He achieved his university education at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where his teachers included Leoš Svárovský, Jiří Chvála, Lubomír Mátl and others. During the studies he made a study exchange at The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków where his teacher was Rafał Jacek Delekta. At various conducting masterclasses he learned from George Pehlivanian, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Colin Metters, Tadeusz Strugała, Czesław Grabowski and Mark Heron. Already as a student he begun assisting Oliver von Dohnányi and started to conduct professional orchestras, achieving excellent reviews. University of Alberta cites his graduation performance of Antonín Dvořák's Czech Suite within their curated musical selection of online performances of Dvořák's works.
