Semyon Bychkov

Semyon Bychkov’s performing is admired because of its clearness, unexaggerated manifestation, and frankness in conveying the intention from the music, whatever he is performing. He is similarly comfortable performing orchestral, choral, or operatic music. His initial studies were from the piano, but he spent a decade (from age seven) on the Glinka Choir College in St. Petersburg performing in the choir and learning performing. Bychkov then examined with Ilya Musin on the Leningrad Conservatory, getting such respect for his abilities that he gained the 1973 Rachmaninov Performing Competition and was asked to carry out the Leningrad Philharmonic before his graduation. Nevertheless, the concert and his graduation hardly ever happened. Bychkov was not discreet about his sights of Soviet procedures and for this reason, the concert was canceled. In 1974 the KGB handed him an leave visa. After a couple of months in Vienna and Italy, he discovered himself in NY, studying conducting on the Mannes University of Music. Then became conductor from the Grand Rapids [Michigan] Symphony, 1980-1984, and had taken American citizenship in 1983. At exactly the same time, he was primary guest conductor from the Buffalo (NY) Philharmonic, ultimately getting its music movie director in 1985. Nevertheless, it was some guest conducting careers — including using the Berlin Philharmonic, and completing for Bernard Haitink using the Concertgebouw and Rafael Kubelik with the brand new York Philharmonic — in 1984 that brought him worldwide attention. Around once, his first documenting, of Rossini’s Stabat Mater on Philips, fulfilled with great achievement. Departing the Buffalo placement, Bychkov was called music director from the Orchestre de Paris in 1989, primary guest conductor from the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1990, primary visitor conductor of Florence’s Maggio Musicale in 1992, and key conductor from the Dresden Semperoper in 1997. He stepped down from his Paris placement in 1998 after getting appointed conductor from the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. With this ensemble, he started a recording group of Shostakovich’s symphonies, extended its touring plan, and premiered many brand-new functions by composers such as for example Magnus Lindberg and Nicholas Maw. As well as the operas carried out in Dresden, Bychkov in addition has carried out Elektra in the Wiener Staatsoper, Tristan und Isolde in the Chicago Lyric Opera, and Jenufa in Florence. Bychkov’s debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera happened in June 2004, with Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. Bychkov is definitely wedded to pianist Marielle Laboratoryèque.