On 2 September, Semyon Bychkov will conduct the Czech Philharmonic in a programme of Czech music on a floating stage on the Vltava River in celebration of the Czech Republic’s EU Presidency. International audiences can watch the concert live via the Facebook pages of...
Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic appear together for the first time this weekend at the Edinburgh International Music Festival. Presenting two programmes on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August, a highlight is their performance of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony which...
From The Times, Jessica Duchen On the night that Russia invaded Ukraine, Semyon Bychkov was in Prague, conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra there in Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass. Afterwards, he couldn’t sleep. Experts were saying that the build-up of Russian troops on...
On Tuesday 12 July, Semyon Bychkov received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music alongside composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. Bychkov, who left the Soviet Union before he could graduate from the Leningrad Conservatory, became an Honorary Member of the...
On Friday 5 August, Semyon Bychkov returns to London to conduct the world premiere of the complete Prague Panoramas by Julian Anderson at the BBC Proms. Earlier this year Bychkov conducted the first two movements of Anderson’s latest symphonic work in Munich and in...
