Ingo Ernst Reihl

Ingo Ernst Reihl was born in Oberhausen in 1969, the son of a dancer and a visual artist. He took trumpet and piano lessons at the Mülheim an der Ruhr music school at an early age. From 1985 to 1988, he studied composition with Prof Wolfgang Hufschmidt at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. During this time, he founded the junge orchester NRW (djoNRW), which he still conducts today.

His conducting teachers were Orlando Zucca, Hans Jaskulsky and Libor Pešek. He was particularly influenced by his time in Prague and his collaboration with his teacher there, Václav Neumann, who was chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and president of the Czech Gustav Mahler Society for many years.

Around the 1990s, Reihl founded the orchestra and choir of Witten/Herdecke University and took over as university music director in 1993. At the same time, he conducted the State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus for the first time. Between 1993 and 1999 and from 2001 to 2004, he was chief conductor and artistic director of this ensemble. In 1999, the State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus appointed him its Honorary Conductor. Since 2014, Reihl has been a member of the conducting team of the Penderecki Academy, the festival orchestra of musik:landschaft westfalen. His work as a guest conductor with numerous ensembles has taken him throughout Western and Eastern Europe and is documented on CD releases as well as in radio and television productions.
 

Ingo Ernst Reihl has an impact beyond the campus boundaries:

since 2014
Honorary professorship at Witten/Herdecke University

2013 - 2023
Teaching at TU Dortmund University and director of the university orchestra

since 2001
Honorary professorship at the Belarus State Academy of Music

Conducting masterclasses at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo
 

Prizes and scholarships

Various initiatives have supported the talent of the musician and conductor.

• 1997: Scholarship from the Leonhard Stinnes Foundation
• 1994: Scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation
• 1993: Scholarship from the Werner Richard - Dr Carl Dörken Foundation
• 1987: Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the City of Mülheim an der Ruhr (sponsorship award)
• 1985: Sponsorship and special prize at the NRW state competition "Jugend komponiert" (Youth composes)