Innate around Bessarabia, Romania (now around Moldova), he immigrated to Israel in 1947. He exposed music within Italy, Tel Aviv and the Paris Conservatoire. He established a Rinat choir in the 1955. He performed for the Israel Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1965 and was its conductor until 1975. He was conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1986, music advisor to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1983 and Principal Conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1983 until 1991.

Inside 1987 he was awarded a Israel Prize. Within 1995 he won two prizes: Conductor of the Season, & Fermio Abiatti Prize of the Italian Music Critics Union.

Recently, he wwhen appointed as musical director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He was a foremost non-Japanese to hold such the position inside the Japanese orchestra.