Douglas Bostock

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Douglas Bostock (* 1955 ) is an English conductor and music teacher .

From 1991 to 1998, Bostock was chief conductor and artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and from 1993 to 2011 permanent guest conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic . In 1996 he became musical director of the Ulm Symphonic Wind Orchestra . From 1996 he went on extensive concert tours with the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra . He led it from 2001 to 2006 as chief conductor, then until 2010 as principal guest conductor . Since 2001 he has also been chief conductor of the argovia philharmonic in Switzerland and since 2003 musical director of the Hallwyl Palace Opera . From 2002 to 2008 he was principal guest conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra .

In addition to a large series of partly little-known works by British composers ( The British Symphonic Collection ), his more than 100 CD recordings include the complete orchestral works of Carl Nielsen and the symphonies of Robert Schumann . Bostock regularly leads courses and master classes for young conductors in several countries and has made guest appearances as a conductor and teacher in Europe and Asia, e. B. at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the Royal Danish Academy of Music , the Musikhochschule Zürich and the Geidai University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo.

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