H. Robert Reynolds

Who is H. Robert Reynolds?

H. Robert Reynolds is the principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he holds the H. Robert Reynolds Professorship in Wind Conducting. This appointment followed his retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Music of the University of Michigan where he served as the Henry F. Thurnau Professor of Music, director of university bands, and director of the division of instrumental studies. In addition to these responsibilities, he has also been for nearly 30 years, the conductor of the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of members from the Detroit Symphony.

Robert Reynolds has conducted in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Orchestra Hall, Kennedy Center, Powell Symphony Hall, Academy of Music, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an opera for La Scala Opera, and concerts at the prestigious Maggio Musicale, the Tonhalle, and at the Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw, as well as the 750th Anniversary of the City of Berlin. He has won the praise of numerous composers, including Aaron Copland, Karel Husa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, Gunther Schuller, and many others for his interpretive conducting of their compositions.