RuthReinhardt

The 2025/26 season marks the beginning of Reinhardt’s term as Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, leading seven programs across the season. In the summer of 2025, she makes debuts with the Seoul Philharmonic and the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. Other significant debuts in 25/26 include the Staatskapelle Dresden, Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen in Switzerland, SWR Symphonieorchester, and the FolkwangKammerorchester in Essen. She also has return engagements with the Warsaw Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic (FL), and Orlando Philharmonic.

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 past seasons, Reinhardt has appeared with many of the major North American Orchestras and as recently as last season has made a debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, and Baltimore. In Europe, she has appeared with Hague Residentie Orkestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de France, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, RSO Berlin, Stockholm Philharmonic, and Tonkünstler Orchestra Wien, among many others.