BART VAN REYN

The young conductor Bart Van Reyn studied at the Royal Conservatories of Antwerp (Choral Conducting) and Brussels (Orchestral Conducting), and also specialised in performance practice of Early Music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Jos van Veldhoven.
He attended masterclasses with famous conductors such as Paul Hillier, Harry Christophers, Frieder Bernius and Tońu Kaljuste and with high profile ensembles like The Sixteen, das Junge Vokalensemble Hannover and the Netherlands Chamber Choir.

Besides the Octopus Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra, he has conducted different early music ensembles as Euterpe Baroque Consort (Belgium), Vox Luminis (France) and the baroque orchestras Florilegium Musicum (Netherlands) and Aspetti Musicali (Belgium).
He is also active in contemporary music: he has conducted several works at the Steve Reich Festival in The Hague in the presence of the composer.

Bart Van Reyn works as repetiteur with the Netherlands Bach Society, The Flemish Radio Choir and the chamber orchestras Prima la Musica and Cappella Augustina Köln.

As an assistant-conductor he works for the opera houses of Brussels (la Monnaie), Antwerp and Ghent (Flanders Opera) and Maastricht (Opera South). He has assisted many conductors including Andreas Spering, Jos van Veldhoven, Dirk Vermeulen, Christoph Poppen and Michael Hofstetter.

Last season he conducted "Dido and Aeneas" at the Basel Opera House. From 2006 he has been musical director of the period orchestra Musica Rara in Milan, where he will conduct 20 concerts a year. With this orchestra he will conduct Stravinski Apollon Musagčte, Mahler das Lied von der Erde and Monteverdi Mariavespers 1610 in 2007.