In 1999, his interpretation of Siegfried in Swan Lake was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Dance. He has received numerous critics’ choice awards for his interpretations of the leading parts in Wassiljew’s Macbeth, Cranko’s Onegin and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as for one of his most acclaimed classical roles, Basilio in Don Quixote. His repertoire included the leading parts in the great classical narrative ballets, such as Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Bayadère, La Sylphide, Raymonda, Don Quixote, Spartacus, and Macbeth, as well as in John Cranko’s Onegin and The Taming of the Shrew. He performed solo roles in works from the Balanchine repertoire, including The Prodigal Son, Apollon Musagète, Symphony in C, Theme and Variations, as well as The Four Temperaments. Internationally celebrated figures and choreographers like Ray Barra, Patrice Bart, Michael Baryshnikov, Maurice Béjart, Peter Breuer, William Forsythe, Pierre Lacotte, Hans van Manen, Rudolf Nurejew, Roland Petit, Uwe Scholz, Yuri Vamos, and Wladimir Wassiljev created roles for him or reinterpretations of classical narrative ballets. Guest appearances and gala events include performances with internationally renowned ballet companies like the American Ballet Theater in New York, the Bayerische Staatsballett, the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, the Finnish National Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, the Royal Ballet London, the Stuttgarter Ballett, and the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo. He has danced with famous international ballerinas like Eva Evdokimova, Isabelle Guérin, Sylvie Guillem, Evelyn Hart, Margaret Illmann, Alessandra Ferri, Ludmilla Semenjaka, and Steffi Scherzer.