Concertmaster position for HfMT alumnus

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Thomas Reif, who completed his Bachelor's degree as a violinist at the HfMT under Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, becomes 1st concertmaster of the internationally renowned Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

After completing his Bachelor's degree and a CD production of the equally grandiose and demanding Alban Berg Violin Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of the HfMT Hamburg under the direction of Ulrich Windfuhr, he went on to complete his Master's degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin in the class of Prof. Stefan Picard.
Thomas is now returning to his old home and taking up the position of 1st coord. Concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Vita:

The violinist Thomas Reif, who is active as a soloist as well as a chamber musician and concertmaster, has already received several international awards.
Most recently, he won the Federal President's Prize at the Mendelssohn University Competition in Berlin, but has also won prizes at the International Mozart Competitions in Salzburg and Augsburg. In 2015, he was laureate at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels.

The passionate chamber musician regularly plays at festivals such as the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier Festival Academy, Classique Puplinge, Festivo Chiemgau, Eggenfelden Klassisch and "Harriet and friends". His chamber music partners have included Clemens Hagen, Lukas Hagen, Herbert Schuch, Johannes Erkes, Danilo Marchello and Laszlo Kuti.
He loves early baroque music and founded the ensemble c4 with harpsichordist Alexander Gergelyfi, which presents works by Johan Helmich Roman, Francesco Maria Veracini and Jean Baptist Lully, among others, in a new, fresh light.

He uses this chamber music energy when he leads chamber orchestras without a conductor, as he did at the first "Eggenfelden Klassisch" festival with Tchaikovsky's String Serenade and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
He is in demand as concertmaster with orchestras such as the Munich and Vienna Chamber Orchestras, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim and the Camerata Hamburg and has played with conductors such as Alexander Liebreich, Stefan Vladar and Johannes Schlaefli in the Berlin Philharmonie, Munich's Prinzregententheater, as well as the Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City Hall and Sapporo Concert Hall in Japan.

As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Ensemble KNM Berlin, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, the Theater für Niedersachsen and the Salzburg Chamber Soloists. He has worked with conductors such as Garret Keast, Paul Meyer, Marin Alsop, Bruno Weil, Ulrich Windfuhr and Douglas Boyd.

He received his violin training with Prof. Harald Herzl (Mozarteum Salzburg) and Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender (Hamburg). He then studied with Prof. Stephan Picard at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He received further formative impressions from Midori, Prof. Igor Ozim, Vadim Gluzman, Prof. Thomas Riebl and Prof. Christian Altenburger.

Since 2017 he has been playing a violin by Lorenzo Storioni from around 1780, a private loan.