Ruth Reinhardt made her North Carolina Symphony debut at UNC Healthcare Summerfest in 2018, leading a classical program that featured Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 performed by Daniel Hsu. The concert also included Mussorgsky's Dawn on the Moskva River, selections from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances.
In the 2021/22 season, Ruth Reinhardt makes debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, Naples Philharmonic (Florida), and the symphony orchestras of Portland and Milwaukee, culminating in summer festival debuts at Blossom Music Center and Wolf Trap. In Europe, debuts include Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Raidió Teilifís Éireann Dublin, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, and Konzerthausorchester Berlin. She will also return to the Seattle Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona, and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Highlights of Reinhardt’s recent seasons have included debuts in the United States with the symphony orchestras of Detroit, Baltimore, Portland, and Fort Worth; the symphonies of Houston, San Antonio, Omaha, and Grand Rapids; as well as the Orlando Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, and the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. She also returned to conduct The Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Impuls Festival in Germany, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra for both a subscription week and their contemporary alternative ReMix series. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, she served as the assistant conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra.
Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Reinhardt began studying violin at an early age and sang in the children’s chorus of Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken’s opera company. By age 17, she had already composed and conducted an opera performed by the children and youths of her hometown. While studying in Zurich, she also conducted the premieres of two chamber operas for children: Die Kleine Meerjungfrau (The Little Mermaid) by Swiss composer Michal Muggli, and Wassilissa by German composer Dennis Bäsecke.
Reinhardt attended Zurich’s University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) to study violin with Rudolf Koelman, and began conducting studies with Constantin Trinks, with additional training under Johannes Schlaefli. She received her master’s degree in conducting from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Alan Gilbert. Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden for two seasons, from 2016 to 2018, she was also a Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2017-18), conducting fellow at the Seattle Symphony (2015-16) and Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center (2015), and an associate conducting fellow of the Taki Concordia program (2015-17).
