Edward Reeve

Conductor, pianist, répétiteur and organist Edward Reeve joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2022/23 Season.  

Reeve has previously worked at the Bayreuth Festival as Assistant Chorus Master on productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. Reeve has also appeared regularly on the Music Staff at Glyndebourne since 2018, including as a répétiteur and chorus répétiteur on productions of Saul, Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro, Il turco in Italia, La traviata, Tristan und Isolde, Rusalka and Káťa Kabanová. He has also recently worked as an Assistant Conductor at Opéra de Rouen Normandie. 

Reeve was Organ Scholar at Queens’ College, Cambridge, graduating with a Double Starred First in Music in June 2017.  He was subsequently awarded the Aliki Vatikioti Graduate Scholarship to study for a PhD in the orchestration of Wagner’s operas. Whilst at Cambridge, Reeve founded the Cambridge Brahms Festival, an annual week-long celebration of the life and music of Johannes Brahms, and The Empyrean Ensemble, with whom he has conducted operas including Handel’s Jephtha, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Così fan tutte, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. 

Reeve made his conducting debut with The Royal Opera in the JPAP Summer Performance in July 2023. He will conduct Britten Sinfonia in the 2023/24 Season’s production of Larmes du Couteau / The Full Moon in March in the Linbury Theatre.