He is an honorary lifetime member of the Vienna State Opera, and was awarded the title of Kammersänger by the theater.
He is an operatic tenor. He studied with his father, the renowned cantor Sidney Shicoff, as well as at The Juilliard School. He made his debut in Cincinnati as Ernani in 1975.
In 2015, St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theatre appointed him as the company's chief of opera. The Mikhailovsky is St. Petersburg's second largest opera company, after the Mariinsky.