GERARD REUTER

Oboe

 

 

A recipient of the prestigious Pro Musicis International Award, oboist GERARD REUTER has enjoyed a distinguished solo career touring the United States, Europe, India and Africa.  Much sought after as a guest at summer festivals, including Caramoor, Marlboro, LaJolla, Round Top, Tucson Winter Chamber Music and the Chamber Music Festival of the Library of Congress in the United States, and the Flanders Festival, the Dartington Festival and the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in Europe, he has also appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Jupiter Symphony and Philharmonia Virtuosi in New York, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, DC, the Soviet EmigrŽ Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, of which he was a founding member.

 

Also active as a chamber musician, he is a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet and was a founding member of the ensemble, An die Musik. As a guest, he has performed with many ensembles, including the Colorado String Quartet, Weilerstein Trio, Composers String Quartet, DaVinci Quartet, Aspen Wind Quintet, American Chamber Players, Divertimento, Armstrong Chamber Concerts, New York Philomusica and I Fiamminghi in Belgium.

 

Increasingly active as a conductor in recent seasons, Mr. Reuter has appeared as guest conductor with the Jupiter Symphony, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, Claremont Strings and the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra.  Albany's Times-Union wrote: "The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra under Reuter were in fine formÉ[he] led a fine, rollicking, crisp performance."

 

Gerard Reuter has been heard on major radio stations throughout this country and in Europe and has been recorded in concert for worldwide broadcast on The Voice of America.  He has recorded for Sony, New World, Telarc, Columbia, BMG-Catalyst, Dorian, Summit and Musical Heritage Society.

 

Mr. Reuter studied oboe at the Juilliard School with Lois Wann and at the Royal College of Music in London.  Conducting studies were with Jens Nygaard, John Nelson, Roger Nierenberg, Pascal Verrot and Ki Sun Sung.  He is on the faculties of New York University and Sarah Lawrence College.

 

 

 

January 2007