Conductor
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 "Svetlanov's" State Symphony orchestra, “Tchaikovsky” Symphony Orchestra (former BSO Moscow), the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, the “Bolshoy Theatre” orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Ural Academic Philharmonic orchestra, ¨Neue Philharmonie¨- Westfallen (Germany), Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “Gieseppe Verdi”, Orchestra Regionale di Toscana - ORT (Florence), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Palermo), Orchestra Sinfonica di San-Remo, Orchestra "Metropolitana" (Lisbon, Portugal), Orchestra Sinfonica de Venezuela (OSV), Orquesta Sinfónica de la UANL (Monterrey, Mexico), Lodz Philharmonic orchestra (Poland), Istanbul State Symphony, "Bilkent" Symphony orchestra (Ankara), the Prague Philharmonia - PKF, the Belarusian State Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Kazakhstan, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), the Tekfen Philharmonic (Istanbul), the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra (IDSO), the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), the Stellenbosch International Festival Orchestra (South Africa), the Nizhny Novgorod Symphony (Russia), the Belgorod Philharmonic, as well as with the "Moscow Virtuosi" State Chamber Orchestra, the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, the "Musica Viva" Orchestra, and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
From 2002 to 2009 Evgeny Bushkov was an Associate 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 120 performances in Russia and abroad.
A keen promoter of new music, Maestro Bushkov regularly gives life to the works of contemporary composers. Such premieres include: the Russian premiere of Alemdar Karamanov’s Requiem at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and his “Spring Overture” and “Dedication” (European premieres with the Istanbul State Symphony and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestrarespectively); the Russian premiere of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, the Russian premiere of the “Zwei Nachtstuecke” by the Austrian composer Erik Freitag with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Orchestra; and the Russian and South-American premieres of “Tango” by Arthurs Maskats to mention just a few. For the celebration of the 65th Anniversary of Victory Day, he was re-invited to perform “The Leningrad” Symphony by Shostakovich in Milano with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. The Venezuela Symphony Orchestra also re-invited him to lead it in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the orchestra.
One of Evgeny Bushkov's most successful creative endeavors is his series of educational concerts for children and the whole family, "Classics is Cool": over the years of collaboration, "Nova Rossiya" has performed 25 of Maestro Bushkov's original programs as part of the Moscow Philharmonic's subscription programs. Since 2009, the geography of these concerts has expanded: to the delight of young listeners, "Classics is Cool" has been held in Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, and Saratov. Some time ago, "Classics" was also performed in English. Evgeny's programs included the first performances of children's works by E. Podgayts, M. Bronner, Yu. Falik, A. Semenov, and P. Patterson; the operas "The Boy Who Grew Up Too Fast" by G.-C. Menotti, "The Town of Zhur-Zhur" by D. Krivitsky, and "The Last Musician" by E. Podgayts were staged for the first time on the Russian stage. From 2015 to 2021, Evgeny Bushkov's children's programs were included in the "Moscow Virtuosi for Children" subscription at the Moscow International House of Music.
As a conductor, Dr. Bushkov has collaborated with world-renowned soloists such as Dmitry Alexeyev, Paul Badura-Skoda, Lucas Debargue, Barry Douglas, Stephen Hough, Vadym Kholodenko, Stephen Kovacevich, Denis Kozhukhin, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alexey Lubimov, Plamena Mangova, Denis Matsuev, Martin Palmeri, Stephen Prutsman, Elisso Virsaladze, Alexander Buzlov, Enrique Dindo, Leonid Gorokhov, Natalia Gutman, Kirill Rodin, Alena Baeva, Julia Bushkova, Nicolas Dautricourt, Sergey Krylov, Daniela Barcellona, Carmen Gianattasio, Maria Guleghina, Debora Voigt, Vladimir Tchernov, Friedrich Lips and Guy Touvron, among others.
From 2012 to 2014 Maestro Bushkov served as Music Director of the Saratov Philharmonic Symphony orchestra. Since 2009 he has been the Artistic Director and Chief conductor of Belarusian State Chamber orchestra (formerly, Minsk Chamber Ochestra). From Jan. 2017 to April 2019 Maestro Bushkov served as conductor-in-residence at the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) in Mumbai. From 2018 to 2021 Maestro Bushkov was appointed Principal Guest conductor at the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (OSS) in Palermo, Italy.
Most recent performances of the past seasons include concerts with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo (Marco Rogliano, soloist) and the Symphony Orchestra of India in Mumbai (Plamena Mangova, soloist) as well as concerts in Kazakhstan with State Academic Symphony orchestra in Almata (Erkebulan Saparbayev, soloist) and in Astana Opera with recently founded "Steppe Music Orchestra" (All-Mozart program, Hyeyoon Park, soloist).
In summer 2023 Maestro Bushkov stepped in with one week notice to conduct the Young Israel Philharmonic orchestra in two concerts at the most prestigious country venues: "Theatron Symphony Hall" in Jerusalem and "Heyhal HaTarbut" Israel Philharmonic Hall in Tel Aviv.
On October, 7' 2024 - composer Efrem Podgaits invited Maestro Bushkov to conduct his 75th Birthday concert with two world premieres of symphony works: Cantata "The Song of Myself" on Walt Whitman's poem and the Fourh Symphony "The Hills" on the same name poem by Joseph Brodsky with "Svetlanov" State Academic Symphony at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State conservatoire.
Since last season, Maestro Bushkov has been the artistic director of the "Mendi Rodan" Symphony Orchestra of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
