Steven Reineke

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Steven Reineke

Background information
Born	1970 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Composer
Instrument(s)	trumpet, piano
Years active	1995-present
Website	http://www.stevenreineke.com

Steven Reineke is a composer and arranger from the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and he is best known for composing music from various backgrounds. Reineke currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has done so since his birth year in 1970.

1 Biography
2 Compositions
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Steven Reineke was born in 1970 in Tipp City, Ohio, and focused his musical talents at an early age on the trumpet. At age fifteen, he taught himself how to play the piano. He continued his trumpet studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, receiving two bachelors of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He is currently the composer and arranger for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. As one of America’s most dynamic emerging talents in the symphonic pops genre, Steven Reineke is widely recognized as the sound of the Cincinnati Pops. In addition to his work for the Cincinnati Pops, he has written and arranged for pops conductors Doc Severinsen, Jack Everly and Michael Krajewski. Steven Reineke’s arrangements can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops recordings on the Telarc label and have been broadcast nationally by PBS. Steven Reineke is also an established symphonic band composer. His works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in the United States and Canada. In 2005 his Festival Te Deum and Swans 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.” Also in 2006, he completed his First Symphony. This powerful work was commissioned by the Contra Costa Wind Symphony in Walnut Creek, California to commemorate the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and recognize the ensemble's 25th anniversary. His April 2006 world premiere of Symphony No. 1 “New Day Rising” has received favorable praise and the Contra Costa Times wrote, “The composer wears his influences on his sleeve, and throughout the 40-minute performance, one could hear shades of Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Ives, even Copland. The score is attractive, beautifully textured and built to endure.” In 2007, he began work on a new American overture celebrating the history of the United States. A protégé of the legendary pops conductor Erich Kunzel, Steven Reineke’s recent guest conducting appearances include the orchestras of Cincinnati, Toronto, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Edmonton and Windsor. In 2006, Reineke collaborated with rock legend Peter Frampton as conductor, arranger and orchestrator for Mr. Frampton’s orchestral show. In 2007, he will make his conducting debut with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra with the multi-faceted entertainer Wayne Brady. In addition, Reineke will arrange and orchestrate all of the music for Mr. Brady’s new orchestral show to debut in October 2007. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world. He is a frequent guest conductor and clinician with professional, college, and high school bands. He had very recently worked with, and was a guest conductor at Strathcona Composite High School's year end concert, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Mr. Reineke currently resides in Cincinnati.

[edit] Compositions

Title^[1]		Published	Grade	Length	Description
Celebration Fanfare		2007	4
Defying Gravity		2004	3.5	5:12	Depicts adventures in the sky above the clouds and fighting their way through a turbulent storm.
Fate of the Gods		2001	4	8:22	Based on the tales from the Nordic mythology.
Goddess of Fire		2006	4.5	9:59	Sets place in Hawaii and depicts a powerful woman Pele, the Goddess of the volcanoes.
Heaven's Light		2004	3.5	3:55	Creates a signal of light of heaven through melodies from the clarinets and flutes.
Hopetown Holiday		1998	3.5	5:24	An exhilarating piece revolving around the journey to the Indicas Reef.
In the Temple of Zion		1997	3.5	5:44	Sets place in Utah with a theme of the Zion National Park.
Into the Raging River		1999	4	7:30	Shows adventures of the white-colored river on a water-rafting trip.
Main Street Celebration		2002	3.5	5:30	Following the tour through the town on the Main Street.
Merry Christmas, Everyone!		2007	3.5	5:19	Contains a medley of classic Christmas songs.
Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons		2002	4.5	10:06	Depicts travelers climbing up the mountain of Pilatus in Switzerland, in hopes to search for dragons.
Portrait of Freedom		2002	4	6:29
Rise of the Firebird		2001	3.5	2:33	Energetic fanfare representing the firebird.
River of Life		1995	4	4:48	Creates a melody that sounds like a flow of a relaxing river.
Sedona		2000	3.5	5:36
Swans Island Sojourn		1996	3.5	6:02
Symphony No. 1: New Day Rising	Mvt. I: City of Gold	2007	5	8:28	Introduces the city of San Francisco and what the city will look like in the 20th century.
	Mvt. II: Nocturne	2007	5	6:37	Tells us of the city that sleeps at the night of April 17, 1906 before the imminent earthquake on the next day.
	Mvt. III: And the Earth Trembled	2007	5	9:32	Shows the climax of the city during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake at 6:00 AM on April 18, 1906.
	Mvt. IV: New Day Rising	2007	5	7:13	Depicts the rebulding of the shattered remains of the city and a day of new hope in the future.
Towards a New Horizon		2007	3.5	6:08	Commissioned by the town of Shoreview, Minnesota, to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Allegedly Reineke found the town so boring he composed the melody by repeating "Shoreview, Minnesota" until it fit to music.
Where Eagles Soar		2003	3.5	4:10
The Witch and the Saint		2004	4	10:22	Conveys the story of the lives of the twin sisters Helena and Sibylla in Germany in 1598.