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Douglas Boyd is a Scottish conductor and oboist. He was a student of Janet Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music, and he later studied with Maurice Bourgue. Boyd was a founding member of the <a href="spotify:artist:1VfDXOsmvKAtebAZ9KxQhC">Chamber Orchestra of Europe</a>, and he was the principal oboist from 1981 to 2002. He became interested in conducting, and was guided by <a href="spotify:artist:6HclTVD03WSY6GUpN16BkP">Claudio Abbado</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0AeOzXbHJu8q2xqILEOLEO">Nikolaus Harnoncourt</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3TRLbu1HiKgouyapoZE421">Paavo Berglund</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0TrG2LSot4KhaXqdf5K2zE">Colin Davis</a>. Boyd's first position as a conductor came in 2001 when he began work with the <a href="spotify:artist:5sYNdMlE64V0PjSMIxnB8B">Manchester Camerata</a>. He was also principal guest conductor with the <a href="spotify:artist:4JKHXlntTvmZnLxjbeRcPL">City of London Sinfonia</a> and artistic director of the Garsington Opera. He was appointed principal conductor of the <a href="spotify:artist:2kreNk7CyXhA7JtJAfTpgu">Musikkollegium Winterthur</a> in 2008, and served in that capacity until 2016. He also became the music director of the <a href="spotify:artist:1ziXHb2jDpxIxQqIckAZ0I">Orchestre de Chambre de Paris</a> in 2015. Boyd has recorded extensively with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22MDG%22">MDG</a>, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Avie%22">Avie</a>, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a>, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Deutsche+Grammophon%22">Deutsche Grammophon</a>, and other labels.

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