Andreas Reize
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Andreas Reize is a Swiss conductor and organist born on May 19, 1975, in Solothurn. He studied church music, organ, and conducting at academies in Bern, Zurich, Lucerne, Basel, and Graz, completing his studies in 2006. Reize founded the cantus firmus vokalensemble und consort in 2001 and the cantus firmus kammerchor in 2006. That same year, he was appointed music director of Oper Schloss Waldegg, where he led recordings of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau opera Le Devin du village and Handel's Apollo e Dafne. He served as the artistic director of the Singknaben der St. Ursenkathedrale Solothurn from 2007 to 2021 and the Zürcher Bach Chor from 2011 to 2021. In December 2020, Reize was designated the eighteenth Thomaskantor of Leipzig, succeeding Gotthold Schwarz. He is the first Swiss and first Catholic to hold the office since the Reformation. Reize officially assumed his duties on September 11, 2021, and was appointed professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig in 2022.
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