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His father, May Bychkov, was a doctor in the Soviet Union who published prolifically on numerous medical subjects. His parents were Jewish.
His maternal great-grandfather, also named Yakov Kreizberg, was a conductor of opera at Odessa Opera.
He was the brother of the conductor Semyon Bychkov.
He met his future wife, conductor Amy Andersson, while they were both students at the University of Michigan. They married in New York City on 24 April 1988 and spent their honeymoon at that year's Bayreuth Festival. At summer festivals in Weikersheim in 2001, 2003, and 2005, they were able to conduct operas on opposite nights, watching each other's conducting of La Traviata, Carmen, and La Boheme. They had two sons.
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