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About Ruth

Music Director: Rhode Island Philharmonic (from 2025/26) Music Director Designate: 2024/25

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.

Ruth is based in Switzerland

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Contact

For availability in Europe and general enquiries:

For contracts, logistics and press:

Chiara Fahy-Spada

Chiara Fahy-Spada

Assistant Artist Manager

For availability and general enquiries:

Edward Pascall

Edward Pascall

Associate Director

Representation

European management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

Season Highlights

Oct 2024
Konserthuset, Stockholm
SMETANA: Die Moldau, from Ma Vlast BACEWICZ: Cello Concerto No.1 -- DVORAK: Symphony No.7 Stockholm Philharmonic
Dec 2024
Bamberg Konzerthalle
HINDEMITH Ragtime (well-tempered) for Orchestra GULDA Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra -- HAYDN Symphony No.84 HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Mar 2025
Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht and Concertgebouw Amsterdam
LUTOSLAWSKI Little Suite for chamber orchestra BRUCH Violin concerto -- DVORAK Symphony No.8 BRUCH Adagio Appassionata TCHAIKOVSKY Valse Scherzo in C major, -- DVORAK Symphony No.8 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

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Ruth Reinhardt debuts with the Bamberger Symphoniker

/13 December 2024

This weekend sees Ruth Reinhardt make her debut with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducting two subscription concerts of Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and Ragtime for Orchestra, alongside Haydn’s Symphony No.84 and Gulda’s Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra with soloist Marius Urba.

Coming up, Ruth debuts with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in two concerts at the Concertgebouw and the TivoliVredenburg, conducting a programme of Lutoslawski, Bruch, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky. That same week she returns to the Malmö Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn's Symphony No.5 paired with Wennäkoski's Hava.

Ruth follows that with a return to Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin before making her debut with Residentie Orkest conducting five concerts with Isata Kanneh-Mason at the Hague, the Salzburger Festspielhaus and at Gallus Hall in Ljubljana.

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