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Just heard today – its official: Melbourne’s Arko Symphonic Project, conducted by Timothy Phillips, have programmed my Concerto for Chamber Orchestra for a concert on the 8th October, 2011. Check out their new website at http://www.arckosymphonicproject.org.au/ Read more

16/09/10 Have just returned from a recording session at HaTeiva with Ensemble Meitar. These guys may be crazy – but they do a great job. The air-conditioning was turned off because it creates additional noise, so soon everyone worked up a sweat. With Arel Paz producing and Ronald recording, Guy Feder conducted Ensemble Meitar in Read more

Performance greeted by critical silence On 12/09/10 Ensemble Meitar gave the World Premiere performance of my work “Loud Music With (Only a Few) Quiet Bits”, during the Festival of Israeli Music. The performance conducted by Guy Feder at the Givatayim Theatre, appeared on a program alongside works by Hana Agiashvilli, Yinam Leef and Menachem Zur. Read more

Ensemble Meitar, Israel’s premier contemporary chamber music ensemble will be performing my work: Loud Music with (only a few) Quiet Bits, in September 2010, at the Israeli Music Festival. Read more

On September 24th, 2008 The Israel Contemporary Players gave a performance of my work: “Music for Eight Instruments”, as part of the Israeli Music Festival. The performance was conducted by Nizan Leibowitch after I revised the work for the instrumental combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn in F, vibraphone, two violins and cello. Read more

My solo piano album – “Seeing Sky” – is now available as a digital download from CD Baby. Read more

12/03/2008 I gave a piano recital at Hateiva in Jaffa, the home of the Israel Contemporary Players (21st Century Ensemble), to support the release of “Seeing Sky”. The concert was totally improvised from start to finish. Amit, the concert organizer, commented: “Now I understand what you mean by the title Seeing Sky”. I had quoted Read more

February 2008. My solo piano album – “Seeing Sky” has been released. It is available in Israel at most specialty music stores, in Australia at the Australian Music Centre and online at Jazzis and at CDBaby. Adam Baruch from Jazzis wrote: “Australian born pianist / composer John Bostock, living in Israel since the late 1980s Read more

02/06/06 Saxophonist and vocalist – John Tchicai visited Israel last week for the White Nights Festival of Alternative Contemporary music. After he expressed the desire to work with piano and drums the organizers hastily contacted me. We put together an hour of material (mostly freely improvised) around John’s tunes and the Monk standard Pannonica. The Read more

My CD – Journey to Gythia is available from the CD Baby website. Here is a link to CD Baby. Read more