Lee Reynolds is a Sky Arts Award-winning conductor with a reputation for bringing intensity and exceptional detail to his performances, with a combination of rigour and flair. He is the Associate Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Alongside the production of Ravel L’enfant et les sortilèges with VOPERA and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Best Opera, Sky Arts Awards 2021), current and recent highlights include his house début conducting John Fulljames’s production of Kurt Weill Street Scene at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, his Russian debut with the New Russian State Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, performances with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and a recording of British horn concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Ben Goldscheider.
Other highlights include Britten and Wagner in the new Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, four world premières at Glyndebourne, performances with the Southbank Sinfonia, the Dublin Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Kraków, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducting a new production of Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin with Nederlandse Reisopera.
As part of an extensive catalogue of recordings, his 2015 recording of Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 with Adolfo Barabino and the LSO has been lauded in the international press, and the world première recording of Vito Palumbo Violin Concerto with the LSO and Francesco d’Orazio will be released on the BIS label in 2022. Other highlights include Barber Violin Concerto with Min Lee and Philharmonia Orchestra; a world première recording of Stuart Turnbull’s symphonic poem Odyssey with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; an LSO Live recording of a programme of works by Percy Aldridge Grainger (available on Marquee TV); and a recording of Britten, Macmillan and Stravinsky with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
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News | Lee Reynolds
News | Lee Reynolds
"...so natural and so convincing that I do not think I have ever heard a technically better recording of a concerto for piano and orchestra. Credit must naturally be extended to the conductor, Lee Reynolds. Make no mistake, this is an outstanding recording in every way."
Musical Opinion
"La direction musicale du jeune chef anglais, Lee Reynolds, tout en élégance enjouée et percutante, donne de sa personnalité, sinon de sa personne, en fosse. Il parvient, progressivement, à enlever la patine classico-romantique de la phalange monégasque, aux impeccables soli de cuivres, aux cordes envoûteuses. Elle se montre, habitude de répertoire oblige, plus à l’aise dans la couleur dramatique que dans le crépitement sensuel de la danse (le jitterbug de Mae et Dick). Les silences pesants que le chef imprime à la dynamique du drame nourrissent progressivement le contraste, entre le comique explosif de l’hymne à l’Ice Cream et le tragique concentré de l’hymne à l’amour (et à la mort)."
Olyrix
"The production's musical values (of L'Enfant et les sortilèges) are impeccable. Lee Reynolds conducts his own chamber orchestration for 27 London Philharmonic players with tremendous clarity and fizz."
The Times
"Musically it's first rate. Reynolds' downscaled orchestration (of L'Enfant et les sortilèges) preserves the clarity and glitter to the score, and the LPO delivers it superbly."
The Guardian
