Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra

 

 

EVGENY BUSHKOV

 

One of today's most promising young conductors, Evgeny Bushkov has received early acclaim as a spectacular violinist. He is a winner of four major international violin competitions - Wieniawski (1986), Queen Elizabeth (1989), Tchaikovsky (1990), and the first Henryk Szeryng Foundation Award (1992).

Evgeny Bushkov successfully brings his exceptional performing experience and impeccable artistic taste to his conducting. His remarkable abilities, as well as high integrity and search for authentic interpretation, attracted attention of a renowned conductor Dmitry Kitajenko. The young conductor also received guidance in USA (A. Brusilow in Dallas and V. Yampolsky in Chicago, among others).

 

Evgeny Bushkov's conducting debut took place in 1999 in France with The Festival Orchestra of the International Festival of  Luxeuil. Following his debut he worked with Novosibirsk Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, ¨Neue Philharmonie¨- Westfallen (Germany), National Orchestra of Belarus, State Academic Orchestra of Kazakhstan, International Symphony Orchestra "Metro Philharmonic", Pan Asian Symphony Orchestra (Hong Kong), Nizhny Novgorod  Symphony (Russia), Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela,  as well as with Minsk Chamber Orchestra  and "Musica  viva".

 

Since 2002, Evgeny Bushkov holds a position of the conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra "Novaya Rossiya" (Yury Bashmet, Artistic Director).  His highly acclaimed debut with the orchestra in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory in February 2004 was followed by more than 80 performances in Russia and abroad. Evgeny Bushkov has collaborated with such eminent soloists as Eliso Virsaladze, Natalia Gutman, Barry Douglas, Debora Voigt, Vladimir Tchernov, Denis Matsuev, Alexey Liubimov, to mention just a few. Yury Bashmet  regularly invites  Evgeny Bushkov for performances of works by Kancheli, Bruch, Ledenev, and Felzer. Together, they gave World Premieres of works for viola and orchestra by Karamanov and Gorelova.

 

In 2003 Maestro Bushkov founded Educational Concert Series for children that had met with instantaneous success. Serving as both conductor and lecturer, Bushkov championed unique and innovative programming, which culminated in his directing two Russian Premieres of children"s operas by G. C. Menotti and D. Krivitsky.

 

Among the highlights of the last seasons are highly acclaimed performances in the Vienna Musikverein, Russian Premiere of the Alemdar Karamanov"s Requiem in Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, tour of Italy with Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela, performance of Verdi Requiem in Moscow with famous Italian mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona, as well as the return engagement with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra for the concert In Memoriam of Arnold Katz.