Douglas Bostock, currently Principal Conductor of the Aargau Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland conducts widely within Europe, Asia and North America. From 1991 to 1998 he was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Carlsbad Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic. He has also served as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic (1992 - 2009) and the Munich Symphony Orchestra (1999 - 2006). From 2000 - 2006 Douglas Bostock was Principal Conductor of the highly acclaimed Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Increasingly active as an opera conductor, he has been Music Director of the Hallwyl Opera Festival in Switzerland since 2003.
Douglas Bostock has established himself as a conductor with a distinctive style, a great communicator and leading exponent of Carl Nielsen's orchestral works. Whilst commanding a wide repertoire his interpretation of British and Czech music has received particular recognition. His fresh and historically informed approach to the Viennese Classical style has been praised by critics, orchestras and audiences alike. Douglas Bostock is also an avid champion of contemporary music and is often involved in collaboration with composers and premiere performances.
Residing in Germany, guest conducting engagements in the UK include the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National Orchestras. Bostock has appeared in most European countries and has conducted e.g. the Prague Symphony, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brno State Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Halle, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, North Germany Philharmonic, Erfurter Philharmonie, Jenaer Philharmonie, the Odense, Alborg, Arhus and South Jutland Symphony Orchestras, as well as extensively with leading orchestras in the USA, Canada and Mexico. In Japan guest conducting engagements have taken him to the New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo City Symphony, Kanagawa Philharmonic, Geidai Philharmonia and Gunma Symphony.
Douglas Bostock enjoys working with young musicians and is frequently invited to conduct and teach at colleges in Europe and Asia, e.g. Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Danish Academy of Music and Musikhochschule Zurich. He is Visiting Professor at the National University Arts (Geidai), Tokyo and Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan.
A prolific recording artist, Douglas Bostock has almost 80 CDs to his name, reflecting his diverse expertise in music of all styles, and including many previously less well-known and previously unrecorded works. His major recording cycles of the complete orchestral music of Carl Nielsen and the symphonies of Robert Schumann on Classico have won particular international acclaim. The British Symphonic Collection on Classico is another ongoing recording project that has attracted the attention of critics and music lovers all over the world.
