Douglas Kostner has been a performing musician for over twenty five years. He has worked with adult (both amateur and professional) and children’s choirs, handbell choirs, small and large instrumental ensembles, and theater companies. He has conducted well over a hundred musical theater productions at such venues as the Westchester Broadway Theater, New York University’s Summer Musical Theater, and the New Federal Theater at the Henry Street Settlement. As a choral conductor, he has presented dozens of concerts of sacred and secular music with orchestral accompaniment.
Mr. Kostner is an active composer and arranger. His church music is published by GIA of Chicago, IL. His compositions and arrangements have been performed at various institutions in the New York City area including St. Joseph’s Seminary, the City University of New York, and the national meeting of the Boards of the Methodist Church.
He is currently Director of Music Ministry at the Larchmont Avenue Church (Larchmont, NY), where he directs the Chancel Choir, Children’s Choir, Bell Choir, and various instrumental ensembles. In 2009 he was named Music Director of the Westchester Chorale. He has a particular interest in exploring lesser-known repertoire and bringing to light neglected compositions that are worthy to be heard.
Mr. Kostner holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Fordham University and Manhattan School of Music. He is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London, and an Associate of the American Guild of Organists. He is fluent in Italian and has a good working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Latin, and to a lesser degree, German, Russian, and Hebrew.
Read further about Douglas’s extensive contributions to the local musical scene in this article published November 2019 in Larchmont Living.