British conductor Douglas Bostock is visiting Latvia for the first time to open the festival “Windstream” and the new concert season of the orchestra, which was moved from spring, at the conductor’s desk of the orchestra “Riga”, the orchestra’s representatives informed.
The concert will take place on Friday, October 2, at 7 pm in the Grand Guild.
The opening of the new concert season of the orchestra “Riga” will be performed with the concert of the festival “Windstream” scheduled for spring, conducted by one of the most outstanding conductors of his generation of British origin – Douglas Boston. Bostock is currently the artistic director and principal conductor of the German Southwestern Chamber Orchestra, but his creative work is associated with a number of world-famous orchestras. He was once the artistic director of the Argovia Philharmonic, the Halvil Opera Festival, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and the world’s best wind orchestra, the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, where he was principal conductor from 2000 to 2006. As a guest artist, he has conducted leading European, North American and Asian orchestras – the London Philharmonic, BBC orchestras, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas Symphony Orchestra and others.
Douglas Bostock in rehearsal with the orchestra “Riga”
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Taking into account the conductor’s extensive experience and artistic activity in Asia, the first part of the concert program will feature a special selection of music created by Japanese composers, which has not been played in Latvia before. In the second part of the concert, the conductor together with the Riga Orchestra has chosen to interpret the music of Vaclav Nelhibel and Philip Spark.
“In my opinion, this could be a very special program for listeners in Latvia, because Japanese music is definitely not played here very often.
In addition, the selected sheet music scores are very contrasting and different, and each will surprise with its uniquely oriental mood, ”the conductor said after the first rehearsal with the orchestra. “My first impressions in Latvia are about people, although I don’t meet many people, because security measures mean that I am only at work and in a hotel room. The people here are very kind and I am happy to be here and to conduct. I hope to return to the Baltic States in calmer times, ”Bostok noted.
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