Daniel Reuss

Daniel Reuss is most beneficial known as among Europe’s finest choral conductors, though he has led many main orchestras and had significant success in opera aswell. All his performing posts have already been with choral ensembles, the very best known of these the Cappella Amsterdam and Berlin’s RIAS Kammerchor. Reuss’ repertory offers extremely been eclectic and spans from past due Renaissance to modern fare, consuming functions by Sweelinck, J.S. Bach, Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Janácek, Poulenc, Messiaen, Ligeti, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Ivan Moody, and such modern Dutch composers as Lot de Leeuw, Robert Heppener, and Peter Schat. Reuss is usually similarly effective in smaller sized a cappella functions, just like a Sweelinck or Brahms motet, as he’s in large items, like Handel’s oratorio Solomon or Frank Martin’s hour-and-a-half oratorio Golgotha, for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra. Reuss offers toured throughout European countries, the U.K., U.S., and Japan, and it has made several recordings for such brands mainly because Harmonia Mundi, Route Classics, and Hyperion. Daniel Reuss was created in Leiden, Netherlands, on July 2, 1961. He analyzed choral conducting in the Rotterdam Conservatory, where his educators included Barend Schuurman. In 1982, aged simply 21, Reuss founded the first Music Choir Arnhem. Within the 1980s Reuss gradually built his profession and from 1988-1998 he offered as conductor from the talented beginner group, the Venus Vocal Outfit. In 1990 he assumed responsibilities as primary conductor from the Cappella Amsterdam but still serves for the reason that function. Throughout his tenure Cappella Amsterdam is continuing to grow in prestige, executing not only in lots of acclaimed concerts however in main opera productions, much like the 1996 Dutch premiere of Tan Dun’s Marco Polo, where Reuss offered as choral movie director. The live show was released by Sony on two CDs in 1997 and received high compliment. Within the 1990s Reuss was also involved in alternative activities, which included performing an excellent beginner choir, the Dutch Pupil Chamber Choir, from 1990-1997. Furthermore, Reuss considered educational pursuits, teaching choral performing on the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory from 1994-2000. In 2003 Reuss recognized another position, that one in Berlin as conductor from the RIAS Kammerchor. Though he kept his Berlin post just until 2006, Reuss attained notable successes using the ensemble, including his extremely acclaimed Harmonia Mundi disk of Handel’s Solomon (released in 2007). Upon this saving Reuss also conducts the Academy for Old Music Berlin. Reuss debuted on the British Country wide Opera in Feb 2007 leading a efficiency of Handel’s Agrippina. U.K. critics had been almost unanimous within their compliment of both him as well as the creation. In 2008 Reuss assumed responsibilities as key conductor and creative director from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, being successful Paul Hillier. Reuss’ 2010 Harmonia Mundi documenting of Frank Martin’s Golgotha, with both Cappella Amsterdam and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, was another important success. Reuss’ active 2012 plan included Feb concerts using the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Estonian Country wide Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem in Tallinn and Groningen, Netherlands.