Alexander Bykov
In the orchestra since 2022
Alexander Bykov was born in 1991 in Leningrad. In 2017 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (the class of A.A. Isaev) and continued his studies at the Conservatory as a trainee assistant (the class of A.V. Kazakov). From 2019 to 2021 he studied at the postgraduate programme of the Lucerne School of Music (Switzerland) in the oboe class (the class of I. Podyomov). He has been working in the musicAeterna orchestra since 2022.
He took part in the master classes of such outstanding oboists as David Walter, Maurice Bourgue, François Leleux, Thomas Indermühle, Gregor Witt, Laszlo Hadadi, Alex Klein, Gordon Hunt, etc. He actively tours in Russia and abroad. He has performed as a soloist in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and other European countries.
He performed a number of premieres of works for oboe, including the Concert for Oboe with the orchestra by D. Anzarokov on the stage of the Berlin Konzerthaus in 2018.
As a soloist in orchestras and ensembles, he performed at such venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein Wien, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Elbe Philharmonic (Hamburg), the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella, the Zaryadye Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, etc.
Since 2013 he has been a soloist of the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella Symphony Orchestra. As a guest oboist, he performs as part of the Camerata of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra (Honoured Collective of Russia), etc.
musicAeterna orchestra events
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphony of Psalms for Choir and Orchestra (1930, second edition 1948)
Persephone, a melodrama for speaker, soloists, choir, dancers and orchestra based on a libretto by André Gide (1933)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest actors and soloists
Alexander Ponomaryov “Vesna” Children’s Choir
Ksenia Rapport as Persephone
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Symphony of Psalms for Choir and Orchestra (1930, second edition 1948)
Persephone, a melodrama for speaker, soloists, choir, dancers and orchestra based on a libretto by André Gide (1933)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest actors and soloists
Alexander Ponomaryov “Vesna” Children’s Choir
Ksenia Rapport as Persephone
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
String sextet “Souvenir de Florence”, D minor, Op. 70 (1890, 1892)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Fratres (1977)
solo violin – Olga Volkova
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, arranged for chamber orchestra by Rudolf Barshai, Op. 110a, 1967)
Gia Kancheli (1935 – 2019)
“A Little Daneliad” for violin, piano, percussion (ad libitum), and string orchestra (2000)
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings TrV 290, AV 142 (1945)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 “Pathetic” in h minor, Op. 74 (1893)
musicAeterna orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings TrV 290, AV 142 (1945)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 “Pathetic” in h minor, Op. 74 (1893)
musicAeterna orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis