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FIRST RUSALKA AT DVORAK PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
On Monday 19 September, Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic present the first of three performances of the opera at the 2022 Dvořák Prague International Music Festival. Rusalka is the first opera that Semyon Bychkov will conduct with the Czech Philharmonic and,...
CONCERT FOR EUROPE
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...
CZECH PHIL SUMMER TOUR
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...
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC HONORARY DOCTORATE
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...
BBC PROMS 2022
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...
BBC HARDTALK
In London to conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov was last week the invited guest on BBC HARDtalk filmed at the BBC’s Westminster studios. Today (Monday 20 June), his appearance...
MAHLER’S THIRD SYMPHONY THIS JUNE
This month, Semyon Bychkov focuses on Mahler’s Third Symphony with performances first in Hamburg and then in London. Over three nights at the beginning of June (2, 3 and 5), he will be heard conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. A couple of weeks later on 23...
ELEKTRA IN PARIS
This May, Semyon Bychkov returns to the Opéra national de Paris to conduct Strauss’s Elektra. He is reunited with American soprano Christine Goerke in title role. The pair last worked together on Elektra in 2020 in Vienna and prior to that were heard at the BBC Proms...
THE ECONOMIST ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
Semyon Bychkov was recently invited by The Economist to contribute to their By Invitation column. Find out more here.
THE ECONOMIST ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
Semyon Bychkov was recently invited by The Economist to contribute to their By Invitation column. Find out more here.
UKRAINE BENEFIT CONCERT IN PRAGUE
On 1 March, Semyon Bychkov and members of the Czech Philharmonic took part in a benefit concert for Ukraine.Thirty thousand people gathered together at Prague’s Wenceslas Square and more tuned in in solidarity, donating over 180 million in CZK. Skip to 2 hours and 58...
MARCH EUROPEAN TOUR WITH CZECH PHILHARMONIC
Announcing its first international tour since the beginning of the pandmemic. the Czech Philharmonic will give 10 concerts with Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov in Austria, Germany and the UK this March. The tour kicks off on 3 March with a 3-concert...
WITHDRAWAL FROM RUSSIAN ENGAGEMENTS
It is with a heavy heart that Semyon Bychkov has had to withdraw from his concerts this summer with the Russian Youth Orchestra. Here he explains why: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine brought unthinkable devastation and human suffering. There can be no winners...
A STATEMENT FROM SEMYON BYCHKOV
Semyon Bychkov has issued the below statement in light of the news this morning from Ukraine: “Silence in the face of evil becomes its accomplice and ends up becoming its equal. Russian aggression in Ukraine brings us to what my generation hoped would never happen...
MEZZO LIVE HD BROADCAST OF GLAGOLITIC MASS
On Monday 28 February, Mezzo Live HD broadcast Semyon Bychkov’s performance of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass with the Czech Philharmonic in Prague. Starting at 9pm GMT, the concert opens with Smolka’s Agnus Dei and Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto with Yuja Wang. More...
SEMYON BYCHKOV TO RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC
The Royal Academy of Music today announced that they will confer an honorary doctorate to Semyon Bychkov, the Academy’s Klemperer Chair of Conducting and an Honorary Member since 2016. The awards ceremony will take place this July, a month after Bychkov conducts the...
ENIGMA PROGRAM INTERVIEW
Semyon Bychkov’s interview with Russian presenter Irina Nikitina about his life and career for TV Kultura’s Enigma Program series is now available to watch online via this link here.
A NEW MAHLER CYCLE ON PENTATONE
The Czech Philharmonic today announced an important new partnership with PENTATONE who will become joint producers and worldwide distributors for Czech Philharmonic recordings. Semyon Bychkov, Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic, inaugurates...
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