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...
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...
Prior to conducting the LA Philharmonic last week in Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie, Semyon Bychkov talked to NPR Music’s All Things Considered about the piece on the day of its 100th anniversary:...
October marks a busy month of US engagements for Semyon Bychkov who will conduct four different orchestras within the space of four weeks. On 8 October, Bychkov gives the US première of Detlev Glanert’s Brahms-Fantasie with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra which will be...
Opening the new season with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg, September has so far seen Semyon Bychkov make further appearances with the Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival. The latter half of Bychkov’s European tour with...
Prior to his performance of Shostakovich’s epic Seventh Symphony – the “Leningrad” – at the BBC Proms, Semyon Bychkov took some time to speak with John Wilson at BBC Front Row and to BBC World Service about the work, which is so connected to his birthplace. You can...
