Florian Riem

Florian Riem (born August 28, 1968 in Munich ) is a German cultural manager and orchestra director .

Born in Munich in 1968, Florian Riem studied music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and from 1990 at Indiana University in Bloomington , Indiana (USA). His teachers included János Starker , Joseph Gingold , Rostislav Dubinsky and Menahem Pressler . The Master of Arts with a thesis on Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen was followed in 1993 by postgraduate studies at the University of Maryland in Washington, DC and an assistant at the Guarneri String Quartet .

Riem has been in management since 1999, including as managing director of Gidon Kremer and his chamber orchestra "Kremerata Baltica" and as personal manager of the singer Jessye Norman . As an employee of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , he organized concert tours for the local choir and festival orchestra with Christoph Eschenbach . In 2005, Riem became deputy general manager of the international chamber orchestra Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Kanazawa , Japan, where he was responsible, among other things, for the entire artistic planning and dramaturgy. From April 2008 to 2012 he was director of the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz , from 2009 to 2013 director of the International Lake Constance Festival in Friedrichshafen . Since 2014, Riem has been head of the Tongyeong International Music Foundation (TIMF) and the new Tongyeong Concert Hall in Tongyeong, South Korea.

In the dramaturgical field, Riem was active on many levels, including as a moderator of symphony, children and school concerts as well as in lectures on classical music and in concert introductions. Since he is fluent in four languages, he has also frequently worked as a translator and simultaneous translator.