Steven Reineke

Steven Reineke (born September 14, 1970 in Tipp City , Ohio ) is an American composer , arranger and conductor of German descent.

Life

Reineke learned to play the trumpet at a young age . At 15, he brought in the self-study the piano at. He studied trumpet and composition at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio . After graduating in 1993, he went to Los Angeles , where he had the opportunity to conduct a workshop with the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra recording his own works. In 1995 Reineke went to Cincinnati , where he joined the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and became its first composer and arranger. Since then he has appeared as a guest conductor with many renowned orchestras , including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the National Symphony of Taiwan in Taipei .

Since 2011 he has been Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra , Washington, DC

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Reineke's music is mainly program music , so it serves the musical implementation of literary models. In addition to some ballet orchestrations, he mainly composed for symphony orchestra or wind orchestra .

Wind band (selection)

• 2000 Rise of the Firebird
• 2005 The Witch and the Saint
• Fate of the gods
• Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons
• Sedona
• Goddess of Fire

Orchestra (selection)

• 1996 Casey at the Bat (An American Narrative Tale) for narrator and orchestra

literature

• Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 620 .

Web links

• Steven Reineke at Discogs (English)
• Steven Reineke at Allmusic (English)