Daniel Reuss
Conductor
Daniel Reuss (1961) studied with Barend Schuurman at the Rotterdam Conservatory and founded the Oude Muziek Koor Arnhem when he was 21 years old. A ‘dedicated non-specialist’, he conducts repertoire spanning across many styles, from music composed around the year 1200 to the most contemporary music.
Since 1990, he has been the Artistic Director and chief conductor of Cappella Amsterdam, where he had been singing for many years prior to his appointment.
He was the chief conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin from 2003 to 2006. From 2008 to 2013, Daniël Reuss combined his work as the Artistic Director of Cappella Amsterdam with a position as chief conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and has been the chief conductor of the Ensemble Vocal Lausanne since June 2015.
Daniël Reuss performs as a guest conductor with ensembles all over the world, such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MusikFabrik, Vocal Consort Berlin, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Collegium Vocale Ghent, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
At the first Cello Biënnale in Amsterdam in 2006, he conducted Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun with Pieter Wispelwey as the