Andreas Reize

Andreas Reize (born 19 May 1975) is a Swiss organist and conductor, with a focus on opera and choral conducting. He was appointed Thomaskantor on 11 September 2021, becoming the 18th director of music to take charge of the world famous Thomanerchor at Leipzig in succession to Johann Sebastian Bach.

Career Reize was born and grew up in Solothurn, where he passed the Matura in 1996. He was a long-term member of the Singknaben der St. Ursenkathedrale Solothurn. He studied church music at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and the Musikhochschule Zürich, achieving also master's degrees in piano pedagogy and concert organ playing. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from 1999 to 2002, followed by studies of orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule Luzern.

Reize was artistic director of the Singknaben der St. Ursenkathedrale Solothurn from 2007 to 2021.

Thomaskantor On 18 December 2020, Reize was designated by the Leipzig city council as Thomaskantor, the 18th in the position after Johann Sebastian Bach, 2004 and 2005: Study prize in orchestral conducting of the and the Kiefer Hablitzel foundation 2009: Music prize of Canton of Solothurn 2009: Preis pro Wartenfels for cultural merits in the Olten region as conductor of the Buchsgau chamber choir 2011: Anerkennungspreis of the culture foundation Kurt und Barbara Alten 2017: Music prize of Canton of Solothurn, with the Singknaben of the Solothurn Cathedral

Recordings Rousseau: Le Devin du Village, Cantus Firmus, cpo 2007/DRS 2