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As reported, the orchestra “Riga” in 2020/2021. The opening of the 1955 concert season will be echoed in the spring concert of the “Windstream” festival, conducted by a special guest – one of the most outstanding conductors of his generation of British origin – Douglas Boston (1955).
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.
According to the representatives of the orchestra “Riga”, 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 orchestra “Riga” 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. “My first impressions of Latvia are about people, although I don’t meet many people, because security measures mean that I am only at work and in the hotel room. People are very kind here and I am happy to be here and I can conduct. I hope to return to the Baltics times, “continues Boston.
Tickets for the concert can be purchased at “Biļešu paradīze” box offices and on the Internet.
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