Hannes Reich

Vita

Hannes Reich is one of the few conductors of his generation who can boast considerable success at an early age in working with both orchestras and choirs. He has been conductor of the Freiburg Academic Orchestra since 2012 and artistic director of the Bosch Symphony Orchestra since 2013. In March 2016 he succeeded Prof. Hans Michael Beuerle as Artistic Director of the Freiburg Bach Choir. In addition, he teaches school and church music students in orchestral conducting at the Trossingen State Academy of Music.

At the same time, he is a scholarship holder in the Conductors' Forum Choir of the German Music Council, has conducted ensembles such as the Rias Chamber Choir or the radio choirs from Berlin and Leipzig and was nominated as one of the three finalists for the German Choir Conductors' Prize 2016.

Hannes Reich has stood at the podium of renowned orchestras. He has been a guest conductor with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the International Regions Symphonie Orchestra of the Landesmusikrat Baden-Württemberg and the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden and has conducted various projects at the theatres of Konstanz and Villingen. He attended master classes with Howard Arman (WDR Radio Choir), Hans Christoph Rademann (Gächinger Kantorei), Lucas Vis (Ensemble Resonanz) and Jos van Veldhofen (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra).

At the Schlossoper Haldenstein in Chur, he has assisted the musical direction on several occasions, conducted the productions La Traviata, Rigoletto and Die Fledermaus and took over the direction of the opera choir. He was also musical director of the productions Die Zauberflöte and Hänsel und Gretel of the Talentwerkstatt 43 e.V. in Rottweil. He was invited by Simon Halsey (Rundfunkchor Berlin) to accompany the worldwide successful scenic performance of Johannes Brahms' German Requiem.

Hannes Reich, born in Calw in 1980, studied school music, cello and orchestral conducting at the Trossingen State Academy of Music and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; he also had conducting lessons with Prof. Sebastian Tewinkel and Prof. Manfred Schreier. From 2005 to 2008 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.

As a cellist he gained valuable orchestral experience under conductors such as Péter Eötvös, Heinrich Schiff or Michael Sanderling and was a guest at various festivals for new music as a soloist and chamber musician. At the final concerts of the off-programme "Next generation" of the Donaueschinger Musiktage, he had performances as cellist and conductor with radio recordings of the SWR. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)