Semyon Bychkov

Conductor

American conductor Semyon Bychkov began his life in Soviet Russia, receiving musical training from childhood. Studying conducting from the age of 17 with the legendary Ilya Musin, he achieved notable early success before emigrating to the West - first to America, and subsequently to Europe. One of the world's leading conductors since the mid-1980s, he has held a dizzying range of chief and guest conductor posts with many of the most prestigious orchestras and opera houses around the globe. Celebrated for the intelligence and humanity of his interpretations, allied with an intense innate musicality and the discipline of his early studies, Bychkov holds multiple honorary positions including pedagogical Chairs from London's Royal Academy of Music and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is the Chief Conductor and Musical Director of the Czech Philharmonic.