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- Birth nameYakov Bychkov
- Yakov Kreizberg was born on October 24, 1959 in Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He is known for Don Giovanni (1995). He was married to Amy Anderson. He died on March 15, 2011 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
- SpouseAmy Anderson(? - March 11, 2011) (his death, 2 children)
- Followed the path of his brother Semyon Bychkov and emigrated from Soviet Union to USA in 1976.
- He won first prize in the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York City.
- He studied with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, and Erich Leinsdorf in Tanglewood and worked with Michael Tilson Thomas at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute in Los Angeles, California.
- He immigrated to the United States in 1976 where he earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Mannes College, the New School for Music in New York City. He would return to Mannes in the mid-1980s as a faculty member and conductor of it's orchestra. He went to study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- He was born in 1959 to a Russian Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad). Younger brother of Semyon Bychkov, he took his mother's maiden name in his career.
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