Douglas Boyd

Douglas Boyd is the Artistic Director of Garsington Opera. He has held the positions of Music Director of L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Chief Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Music Director of Manchester Camerata, Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Partner of St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of City of London Sinfonia. In 2020 he received the highly prestigious Grand Vermeil Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He works with major orchestras worldwide including the BBC Symphony, Philharmonia, CBSO, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Bergen Philharmonic, Gävle Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, Tonhalle Zürich, Budapest Festival, Mozarteum Salzburg, Slovenian Philharmonic, Gürzenich, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony.

Operatic engagements have included Die Zauberflöte / Glyndebourne on Tour, La Grotto di Tronfonio / Zürich Opera, La Clemenza di Tito / Opera North, The Rape of Lucretia / Winteroper Potsdam, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Fidelio, Così fan Tutte, Eugene Onegin, Capriccio, Silver Birch and Dalia (both Roxanna Panufnik, world premieres), Pique Dame, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rusalka / Garsington Opera which also went to the Edinburgh Festival in 2022. 

Douglas Boyd’s extensive discography includes the complete Beethoven Symphonies with the Manchester Camerata, Schubert Symphonies with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra as well as several recordings with Musikkollegium Winterthur. Recordings with L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris include ‘Intuition’ with Gautier Capucon for the Erato label, and a disc of Haydn Symphonies.