Music Consultant/Conductor -Joost Christiaan Flach

Oboist / Conductor

Joost Christiaan Flach is a graduate from the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam. He works and lives in South East Asian since 1984. In 1998, he was appointed as co-principal oboist in the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Before that, he worked in the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Kuala Lumpur Symphony Orchestra.

He has given several oboe recitals in which he premiered contemporary Asian compositions that were specially written for him. In 1990 he became lecturer at the Institute Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, being part of a development project of the government of the Netherlands.

In the capacity of music inspector and educational project officer for the ministry of Education of Singapore, he conducted several school and community bands. For the same ministry he conducted an on-going oboe course for secondary school students.

His teaching skills passed the South East Asian boundaries when he was invited to give a master class at the Music Conservatory of Shanghai. Over all these years he has seen an enormous expansion of the musical infrastructure in all these South East Asian countries and he feels proud that he has been able to contribute to this development.