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April sees Semyon Bychkov conduct five further performances of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Wiener Staatsoper on 2, 6, 9, 13 and 16 April. Starring Christopher Ventris as Parsifal, Gerald Finley as Amfortas and Nina Stemme as Kundry, the performance on 13 April will be...

On 30 March, a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal opens at Wiener Staatsoper conducted by Semyon Bychkov. With further performances taking place on 2, 6, 9, 13 and 16 April, the new production by Latvian director Alvis Hermanis stars Christopher Ventris as Parsifal,...

Semyon Bychkov’s ‘Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky and his World – A Philharmonic Festival’ with the New York Philharmonic continues this month with performances of Piano Concerto No. 1 (1879 version) with Kirill Gerstein and Manfred Symphony on 2, 3, 4 and 7 February,...

Lots to look forward to in the New Year when Semyon Bychkov returns to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in Mahler and Brahms/Glanert from 13-15 January in Vienna and 22 January in Hamburg for the opening festival of the city’s new Elbphilharmonie. In between these...

Following the successful launch of his Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project last month in London, Semyon Bychkov embarks on an international tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra starting in Amsterdam on 16 November, passing through Vienna, Bratislava and...

Classic FM caught up with Semyon Bychkov to talk about Tchaikovsky and why he decided to launch his Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Czech Philharmonic:...

Semyon Bychkov was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph to time with the launch of his Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the first CD release in his Tchaikovsky Recording Cycle with the Czech Philharmonic. The FT also published a...

Semyon Bychkov’s Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project video in which he talks about his relationship with the composer during rehearsals of the Manfred Symphony earlier this summer, was picked by Gramophone as their Video of the...

Ahead of the launch of Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project with the BBC Symphony Orchestra later this month and the release of the first disc in his Tchaikovsky recording cycle with the Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov spoke to The...

Following the final four more performances of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Royal Opera House on 7, 12, 14 and 17 October, Semyon Bychkov launches his Beloved Friend: Tchaikovsky Project with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. With performances taking place on 19, 24 and 28...

Semyon Bychkov returns to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden this autumn to conduct Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’. Opening on 22 September, further performances take place on 24 and 29 September, and 3, 7, 12, 14 and 17 October. Bychkov is joined by cast of young and...

On 10 July, Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in their last performance together this season in Bad Kissingen, Germany. They perform Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony, Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture and Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia and...

On Saturday 4 June, Semyon Bychkov conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the world première of Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No. 2 at the Musikverein. Following a repeat performance on 5 June, Bychkov will give Larcher’s new work its first outing in the UK with the BBC...

This month, Semyon Bychkov returns to conduct both the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic, both Orchestras with whom he toured Europe earlier this season. On 11 and 12 May in Amsterdam, Bychkov conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in...

Semyon Bychkov takes a break from Parsifal this week to conduct the Berliner Philharmoniker in Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein, who will be making his debut with the orchestra. Performances take place...

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:...