RuthReinhardt

The 2024/25 season sees Ruth Reinhardt conduct orchestras on four continents, making her debut in Asia with both the Seoul Philharmonic and Hong Philharmonic, and in South America, with the Orquesta Sinfonica Estado Sao Paulo (OSESP). She begins the season at the Lucerne Festival conducting a programme celebrating the centennial of Pierre Boulez with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. Ruth debuts with symphony orchestras in Bamberg, Nuernberg, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and the Residentie Orchestra in the Hague, and returns to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Stockholm Philharmonic and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. In the US, Ruth conducts the Rhode Island Philharmonic as Music Director Designate, and makes debut appearances with the St Louis Symphony and Charlotte Symphony. She also returns to the Milwaukee and San Diego symphony orchestras.

Programmatically, Ruth's interests have led her toward an in-depth exploration of contemporary repertoire, leading the symphonic and orchestral world into the 21st century. Strongly centered on European composers, with significant emphasis on women composers of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century, she brings new names and fresh faces to many orchestras for the first time. Among those whose works appear often in her progams are Grażyna Bacewicz, Kaija Saariaho, Lotta Wennäkoski, Daniel Bjarnason, Dai Fujikura, and Thomas Adès. Parallel programming can be complementary or contrasting, from the classic moderns such as Lutosławski, Bartok, Stravinsky, and Hindemith, or core composers of the symphonic canon – e.g. Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Dvořák.

In recent seasons, Ruth has made an important series of symphonic debuts in North America with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Houston, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Seattle. In Europe, her appearances have been no less impressive – the Orchestre National de France, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Tonkünstler Orchester, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.