Spotlight – Listen – See in Concert – Review For me, much of the value of performing contemporary music is the experience of working with the composer,” says Semyon Bychkov. “When you perform the music of the past, you rely on your own insight and knowledge, and what...
Teatro Real in Madrid welcomes Semyon Bychkov back this month for Wagner’s Parsifal which opens on Saturday 2 April. The production reunites Bychkov with director Claus Guth with whom he worked on Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Royal Opera House, Covent...
On 15 January 2016, in a presentation ceremony held in advance of his concert with the Academy Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (HonRAM). Semyon holds the Klemperer Chair of Conducting at the Royal...
The beginning of February sees Semyon Bychkov visit five cities within the space of seven days as part of his European tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra this season. Bychkov conducts the Orchestra in Madrid (1 February), Luxembourg (3 February), Frankfurt (4...
This Christmas, Semyon Bychkov returns to Covent Garden to conduct the first opera that he ever conducted, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Given as a concert performance in Leningrad in 1972 when Bychkov was just 20 years old, he has since conducted the work in Paris and...
