Belyayev circle
In 1902 he became the regular conductor of the Russian Symphony Concerts and later made guest appearances with the Russian Musical Society, the Moscow Philharmonic Society, the Siloti Concerts and Ivan Vasilenko’s Historic Concerts as well conducting at the Mariinsky Theatre (1906–9). A member of the Belyayev circle, he was also involved with the "Kruzhok sovremennoy muzïki" (‘The Contemporary Music Circle’) and worked with the "Mir iskusstva" (‘World of Art’) movement. Tcherepnin was a friend of the musicologist Alexander Ossovsky.