Steven Reineke 

Music Director - Designate, The New York Pops

Principal Pops Conductor, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra

Principal Pops Conductor, Modesto Symphony Orchestra

Associate Conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Steven Reineke will begin his tenure as Music Director of The New York Pops in October 2009. He succeeds the legendary Skitch Henderson, who founded the orchestra in 1983 and led the ensemble until his death in 2005. Mr. Reineke will conduct the orchestra’s annual concert series at Carnegie Hall as well as tours, recordings, and nationwide telecasts, including the Macy’s 4^th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC Television. New York ’s only permanent, and professional, symphonic pops orchestra, The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States .

During the 2009-2010 season, Steven Reineke will also begin his tenure as Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra and embark on his second season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he holds the title of Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, where for thirteen years he has served as a composer, arranger, and conducting protégé of the celebrated pops conductor Erich Kunzel.

Steven Reineke’s recent guest conducting appearances include the orchestras of Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore and Edmonton. In 2009 he makes his Boston Pops Orchestra debut.  In 2008 Mr. Reineke made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting The New York Pops 25^th Birthday Gala. He made his Hollywood Bowl debut in 2007 with the multi-faceted entertainer Wayne Brady and returned to the Hollywood Bowl in 2008 to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition, Mr. Reineke conducted, arranged and orchestrated the music for Mr. Brady’s orchestral show and played the same role in his collaboration with rock legend Peter Frampton.

As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s arrangements have been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. Mr. Reineke is also an established symphonic composer. His works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America , with the most recent performances by the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic in July 2008. In August 2008 his Sun Valley Festival Fanfare debuted with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony to commemorate the opening of the orchestra’s new pavilion. In 2005 his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were performed by the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops respectively. The Cincinnati Enquirer had this to say about Festival Te Deum: “Melodious and joyous, it had antiphonal brass in the balconies, organ, full orchestra and wonderful choral passages.” His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world.

A native of Ohio, Mr. Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in Cincinnati and will relocate to New York City in 2009.

 

Updated December 9, 2008