Steven Reineke served as guest conductor of the North Carolina Symphony for a 2009 program titled Broadway Rocks.

    Steven Reineke is the Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Houston Symphony and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He previously held the posts of Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach and Modesto Symphony Orchestras and Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
    Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include Seattle, Edmonton, and Pittsburgh.
    On stage, Reineke has created programs and collaborated with a range of leading artists including Kendrick Lamar, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton, and Ben Folds, among others. In 2017 he was featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered leading the National Symphony Orchestra, in a first for the show, performing live music excerpts in between news segments.
    As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Reineke's work has been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America, and his numerous wind ensemble compositions are performed by concert bands around the world.
    A native of Ohio, Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor’s degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition.