Bosch Leon

Biography:

Leon Bosch was born in the south of Holland and grew up as a musician in the middle of the great Dutch wind band tradition. While studying clarinet and conducting at the Conservatory of Maastricht he won an audition with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and was offered a job as piccolo clarinet. From 1989 he is principal clarinet of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam. For a couple of years he was guest principal clarinet with the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne, Germany and he appeared several times as a guest principal clarinet with most of the major Dutch orchestra’s such as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. As a soloist he performed works by Wolfgang Mozart, Giaccomo Rossini, Carl Maria von Weber, Johann Stamitz, Artie Shaw and Oscar Navarro in Holland and abroad. He is a great admirer of chamber music and as being so he played with some of world’s most famous musicians such as Christian Zacharias - piano, Philippe Entremont - piano, Daniele de Niese - soprano, Anna Bonitatibus - mezzo-soprano, Vesselina Kasarova - mezzosoprano, Gordan Nikoliç - violin , Leon Bosch - double bass. As a senior teacher and player he is often consulted by students from various conservatories in the Netherlands. Since 2008 he is professor of clarinet at the Conservatory of Maastricht. He has been teaching masterclasses also abroad in Germany, Italy, China and there are plans for Korea in 2018. Besides being a professional clarinet player and teacher Leon Bosch is also a active conductor. In the early 90’s he started conducting student orchestra’s in Amsterdam and Utrecht. His repertoire goes from classic to jazz and today he finds time to be chief-conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra ‘Mozart’ Amsterdam, Symphonic Wind Band of Heemstede and the Domstads Wind Ensemble Utrecht.

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