Daniel Reichert & Simon Reichert
Biography Daniel Reichert & Simon Reichert
Daniel Reichert
born in Gütersloh in 1983, began his studies of school music in Detmold in 2004 with Professor Oliver Groenewald, majoring in jazz trumpet. In 2009 he continued his studies in classical trumpet with Professor Max Sommerhalder, which he successfully completed with a diploma in January 2013. In addition, he took part in numerous workshops and master classes in the field of jazz/lead trumpet as well as in the field of classical/baroque with Peter Herbolzheimer, Jiggs Whigham, Ack van Rooyen, Susan Williams, among others. Daniel Reichert is active in many areas as a musician, for example as a member of national and European youth orchestras, since 2006 lead trumpet player of the big band of the Detmold University of Music and in the 2012 / 13 season as trumpet player in the musical production "Hair" at the Landestheater Detmold. Furthermore, he has been involved with the baroque trumpet since his studies and has played with the Göttingen Baroque Orchestra, Academia Filarmonica Cologne, the orchestra "La Rejouissance", among others. In 2013 he held a teaching position for jazz trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold. From October 2013 to the end of 2015 he was a cornet scholarship holder of the Besson company and played in this context with the current German brass band master of the 3BA Concertband as principal cornet. And also participated with this brass band in the European Championships 2015 in Freiburg in the Champions Section.
Since 1999 he has been a member of the Symphonic Wind Orchestra of the Gütersloh Fire Brigade, with which he has also performed as a soloist. 7 years ago Daniel Reichert took over the musical direction of the youth orchestra. In July 2016, he also took over the musical direction of the symphonic wind orchestra of the Gütersloh fire brigade. In addition, he teaches trumpet at the Gütersloh District Music School and is responsible for the training of young brass players for the entire north of the Gütersloh church district as well as the Schwalenberg Trombone Choir.
Simon Reichert
born in Gütersloh in 1980, is intensively involved with Renaissance and Baroque music. He studied church music, organ and historical performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel and is a prize-winner of various competitions, including the "Grand Prix d'ECHO" in Freiberg in 2014.
He has given concerts in many European countries, especially on famous historical organs, including Roskilde Cathedral (Raphaelis), Hamburg St. Jacobi (Schnitger), Stade St. Cosmae (Hues/ Schnitger), Lübeck St. Jakobi (Stellwagen), Brandenburg St. Jakobi (Hues/ Schnitger) and in the Netherlands. Jakobi (Stellwagen), Brandenburg Cathedral (Wagner), Tangermünde St. Stephan (Scherer), Freiberg St. Petri (Silbermann), Suhl Kreuzkirche (Köhler), Waltershausen Stadtkirche (Trost), Soest-Ostoennen (Gothic organ ca. 1430). He also performs regularly with the "Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart" (Henning Wiegräbe) and the "ensemble1 800" (Fritz Burkhardt).
Symphonic works by Max Reger and Olivier Messiaen as well as music of the avant-garde are as much part of his repertoire as works of early music. As a soloist, he has given guest performances of organ concertos by Handel, Haydn and Dupré with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford, the Cappella Istrapolitana Bratislava and the orchestre de chambre du Luxembourg.
Simon Reichert's main occupation is collegiate and district cantor in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Here he leads the Neustadt Stiftskantorei, with which he performs works from the 16th to the 21st century as conductor. As the main organist at the Gothic collegiate church (built 1356-1489), he has had a new fully mechanical choir organ by Bernhardt H. Edskes at his disposal since spring 2016, with 20 stops distributed over two manuals and pedal. This organ is tuned in the chorus tone (465 Hz) and is designed for playing together with historical instruments. In 2015, Simon Reichert played the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 18 concerts on the historic organs of the church district.
His work also includes directing the church music seminar in Neustadt for the training of C and D church musicians. Here he gives lessons in organ playing and improvisation as well as in choral conducting and music theory. Several of his pupils are now studying at various music colleges in Germany and abroad.
