Born in 1970 and raised in Tipp City, Ohio, Steven Reineke focused his youthful musical pursuits on learning to play the trumpet. At age fifteen, he taught himself how to play the piano. He continued his trumpet studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, receiving two bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition.
After graduating from college in 1993, Mr. Reineke moved to Los Angeles with the assistance of the Miami University Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize. He was the first recipient of this award. He participated in the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) Film Composers Workshop led by Fred
Karlin. As a composer in the workshop, Mr. Reineke conducted the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra in recording sessions of his own music. The Los Angeles Composers Guild Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Reineke, has also recorded his compositions.
Following his residency in Los Angeles, Mr. Reineke returned to Cincinnati to orchestrate Carmon DeLeone's original musical score for the Cincinnati Ballet Company's production of Peter Pan. Since that time he has orchestrated two more ballet scores, A Cole Porter Celebration and The Princess and the Pea.
Mr. Reineke joined the staff of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in the summer of 1995 as the Music Assistant and Principal Composer/Arranger. Since then, he has had several arrangements and original compositions recorded by the Pops on numerous TELARC albums. During the 1995-96 season, the Cincinnati Pops presented the world premieres of his Celebration Fanfare and Casey at the Bat (An American Narrative Folk Tale), with Burt Reynolds as narrator, at a special concert during the 1996 American Symphony Orchestra League Conference in Cincinnati. In October of 1996, the Cincinnati Pops premiered Mr. Reineke's composition, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with actor Robert Guillaumenarrating, on a special Halloween Pops Concert on PBS. In June of 1997 at Cincinnati's Riverbend Music Center, the orchestra premiered Mr. Reineke's Riverbend Rhapsody (for piano and orchestra), with Mr. Reineke as piano soloist. Also in the summer of 1997, Mr. Reineke composed a set of variations entitled Ode to Doc for Doc Severinsen's 70th birthday celebration. Since then, he has written several arrangements for Mr. Severinsen and is currently working on a new original composition, commissioned by Mr. Severinsen, for trumpet and orchestra. Mr. Reineke's recent orchestral composition, Rise of the Phoenix, was commissioned by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Symphony to commemorate Maestro Kunzel's 35th anniversary with the orchestra. His arrangement of this piece for symphonic band is entitled Rise of the Firebird
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Steven Reineke, you are awesome! I absolutely love Pilatus and Into the Raging River. You should really add Witch and the Saint, amazing song. Keep it up!
I go to school with ~*~Nik~*~, who is like 2 comments down...and yeah, we played Witch and Saint and everyone in our Concert Band loved your piece. We've played some other works of yours in the past, actually all the one's on your playing list, and I love the style you present in them. I do have to say, your writting is much like Morten Lauridsen, in that you can tell who the composer is within 10 seconds of hearing it.
Hey, thanx for adding me. So I was wondering if you were composing a marching version of Fate of the Gods for Flowing Wells HS. Again thank you for the music you have created, it is truely wonderful!
We played Witch and the Saint when we went to fesival and another song and we got a superior. We played Witch and the Saint again for regionals but only got an Excellent because the french horns didn't watch. Everyone in the band loves that song. I love Pilatus as well. It is probably my favorite. I was wondering though if you know what band performed that song on the recording you have here. They were very good and I'm curious.
i just heard "the witch and the saint" for the first time at viking middle school (you know the place) cuz my little bros in it. that song is going right up there with pilatus and fate as my favs of yours. great work once again!
Hey everyone...this is the real Steven Reineke here. I found this website and finally got added as a friend. lol. Thank you all for your kind comments. It really means alot to me. All of the craziness I put myself through to come up with new pieces really pays off when I know you guys are enjoying them. I actually created my own myspace accounts now. You can hear a couple of my pieces, including my newest one "Goddess of Fire", at myspace.com/reinekemusic or myspace.com/therealreineke. "Goddess" will be available for your bands to do in the fall. Let your directors know if you like it. (wink, wink) Agains, thanks to all of you!!!
hello mr reineke
well right now i have heard all your songs
we are playing Fate of the Gods
it such a good song especially with the trumpet, french horn and trombone solo
its awsome i here it everyday and it stuck in my head
well thanks for the add
and now i have to practice fate of the gods
laters
bye
-rene
band geek
i'm a BIG fan of all your works!! We Played Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons my senior year of high school and my favorite, Into the Raging River my sophmore year. I absolutely LOVE the flute solo! They play fate of the gods probably ever year in the concert band because we all love it!! We've read through a bunch of other pieces you've composed and i even ought TWO of the washington winds:steven reineke cd's, just thought you should know!!! ~Melissa~
Hey Steven...
Sorry it took sometime to comment ya but here I am soo... Just wanting to say hello and I love your music its awsome!!! Also thanks for the add!
ttyl
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