Christian Reif
Christian Reif

CALENDAR

 
No doubt about that, Reif is a remarkable talent.
— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

ABOUT

Chief Conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra since 2023/24, Grammy-Award winning artist Christian Reif has established a reputation for his natural musicality, innovative programming and technical command.
Since 2022, Reif has served as Music Director of the Lakes Area Music Festival, a month-long summer festival in Minnesota featuring the nation’s top classical performers in programming that ranges from opera and chamber music to symphonic performances along with commissioned new works. LAMF believes that high quality arts experiences should be accessible to all and operates on a name-your-price ticket model.

Highlights of Reif’s 2024/25 season include debut performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Phoenix Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Northern Sinfonia. He leads the Cincinnati Symphony in the world premiere of Fantastica, a newly commissioned work by composer Jimmy López Bellido dedicated to Reif based on The Neverending Story, originally a fantasy novel by the German writer Michael Ende and later a major motion picture. He conducts his own arrangement of John Adams’ El Niño with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Gävle Symphony, and the American Modern Opera Company in December 2024. Reif and his wife, soprano Julia Bullock, also bring Bullock's original program History's Persistent Voice to performances at Lincoln Center and Yale University’s Schwarzman Center in February 2025. music to symphonic performances.

It is a rare pleasure to watch this conductor at work.
— Merker

NEWS

 
He’s a conductor of considerable stature, and everything about Thursday’s concert in Davies Symphony Hall felt like the work of a significant musical artist.
— San Francisco Chronicle

MEDIA

 

CONNECT

 
Making an impressive debut with the orchestra, young German conductor Christian Reif brought added excitement to a memorable concert to end the year, and indeed, decade for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
— Bachtrack

CONTACT

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Charlotte Lee
President and Founder
Primo Artists

+1 212 804 8301
charlotte@primoartists.com
www.primoartists.com

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT


Libby Abrahams

Managing Director
Keynote Artist Management
+44 7950 150 601
libby@keynoteAM.com

Daniel Rainey

Senior Artist Manager
Keynote Artist Management
+44 7376 116 691
daniel@keynoteAM.com
www.keynoteartistmanagement.com

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