TIMELINE
EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
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[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1958″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” title=”1958″ sticky_enabled=”0″]
Gives first concert
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1960″ title=”1960″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Glinka_Capella_2004-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Begins attending Glinka Choir School
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1961″ title=”1961″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lenningrad-1.png” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Member of the Leningrad Dynamo Volleyball Team through 1970
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1966″ title=”1966″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Commences conducting lessons
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1967″ title=”1967″ use_timeline_icon=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]First conducts the Glinka Choir
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1970″ title=”1970″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Graduates from Glinka Choir School with Golden Diploma;
Conducting debut with Leningrad Conservatory Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1970 – 75″ title=”1970 – 1975″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/musin.png” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Enters Leningrad Conservatory studying piano with Igor Komarov and conducting with Ilya Musin
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1970 – 1973″ title=”1970 – 1973″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/onegin.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Begins conducting Conservatory Choir – first ballet programme: De Falla Three-Cornered Hat and Ravel Bolero; first opera: Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1973″ title=”1973″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Wins Rachmaninov Conducting Competition, Leningrad
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1975″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/mannes.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” title=”1975″ sticky_enabled=”0″]
On 5 March, emigrates to USA (via Vienna and Rome) and enrolls at Mannes College of Music, New York
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1976″ title=”1976″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/eye-logo.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Professional TV debut on CBS’s Camera Three Show conducting Alexsandr Lokshin’s Symphony No. 5 Shakespeare Sonnets with baritone Alan Titus and the CBS Chamber Orchestra, introduced by Faubion Bowers ‘A Voice from Soviet Russia’
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1976 – 1980″ title=”1976 – 1980″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Appointed conductor of the Mannes College of Music Student Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1977″ title=”1977″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ico.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Debut: Israel Chamber Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1979″ title=”1979″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Photo_of_Gustav_Mahler_by_Moritz_Nahr_01.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Professional US Debut: Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 with Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. The concert marks Bychkov’s first time conducting Mahler; Nine months later, conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 once again for
his farewell concert at Mannes
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1980s
Wins Gino Marinuzzi Conducting Competition, Italy
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Chief Conductor, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, Michigan, Principal Guest Conductor, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1981″ title=”1981″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Interior_of_the_New_York_State_Theater_at_Lincoln_Center_view_from_the_stage_-_February_12_2006.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Debut: New York City Opera – Bizet Carmen
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1983″ title=”1983″ timeline_icon=”||fa||900″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/lyon.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
European debut: Opéra de Lyon – Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker; Becomes US citizen
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Debut: Aix-en-Provence Festival – Mozart La finta giardiniera; Debuts: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1985″ title=”1985″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/51KGNnWmgoL._AC_SY780_.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Debut: Berliner Philharmoniker – two series of concerts within three weeks replacing Riccardo Muti and Eugen Jochum. Programme includes Shostakovich Symphony No. 5; First Guest Conductor to be invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to go on tour in Germany
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1985-89″ title=”1985 – 89″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bychkovbuff1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”Mid 1980s” title=”Mid-1980s” image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/by80s.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
US debuts: Philadelphia, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony. San Francisco Symphony Orchestras
European debuts: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Münchner Philharmoniker, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1986″ title=”1986″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/s-l500.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Signs exclusive contract with Philips; Debut recordings: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker with the Berliner Philharmoniker
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1987″ title=”1987″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/aix.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Australian debut: ABC Radio Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne and Sydney; Aix-en-Provence Festival – Strauss Der Rosenkavalier in honour of the Festival’s 40th anniversary; North American tour with London Philharmonic Orchestra
[/dipi_timeline_item][dipi_timeline_item admin_label=”1987″ title=”1988″ image=”https://semyonbychkov.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dg-photo-4-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
European tour with Orchestre de Paris; Debut: Chicago Lyric Opera – Mozart Don Giovanni
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Spain tour with London Philharmonic Orchestra
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