Several of his students have gone on to became world known performers, including Oleg Maisenberg and Mark Seltzer.
He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory under Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Oleg Maisenberg.
Oleg Kalugin | Oleg Gazmanov | Oleg Mityaev | Oleg Kagan | Oleg Deripaska | Oleg Menshikov | Oleg Maisenberg | Oleg Kulik | Oleg Caetani | Oleg Yefremov | Oleg Strizhenov | Oleg Grabar | Oleg Goncharenko | Oleg Firsov | Oleg Vyugin | Oleg Timchenko | Oleg Tabakov | Oleg Pungin | Oleg Popov | Oleg Ostapenko | Oleg Maslennikov | Oleg Malov | Oleg Litvinenko | Oleg Khlevniuk | Oleg Kashin | Oleg I of Ryazan | Oleg Igorevich Marichev | Oleg Gordievsky | Oleg D. Jefimenko | Oleg Aleksandrovich Smirnov |
He returned each year, bringing his Russian friends such as David Geringas, Andrei Gavrilov, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Oleg Maisenberg, and others who performed at Lockenhauser Konzerte before the founding of Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.