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| Walter Reiter
Born in England and brought up on the wild Atlantic coast of Northern
Ireland, Walter Reiter studied the violin with his mother, who had never learned but came from a family of Viennese Jewish musicians. He studied
Music and Drama at Glasgow University, graduated in violin from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and continued his studies under Ramy Shevelov
in Tel Aviv and Sandor Vegh in Germany. After working in symphony and chamber
orchestras, (including the Menuhin Festival Orchestra), in a string
quartet, a Bluegrass band, contemporary music groups in Paris and a Cabaret in
Pigalle, and also in the Jerusalem Conservatory, where he taught a class of
talented children, his love for the music of the 17th and 18th centuries
brought him to the study of 'authentic' performance practice on period instruments, and this has been his passion ever since.
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He has led Les Arts Florissants (dir. William Christie), the Netherlands
Bach Society Orchestra under Ton Koopman, Rene Jacobs and others, the Hanover Band, the Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort, the King's Consort, and
the Symphony of Harmony and Invention. He has led, directed, and appeared as soloist with the Orchestra Barocca
Italiana in Rome, the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, France, and the
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra. He has worked with Gustave Leonhardt and John Eliot
Gardiner and since 1989 he has led the second violins in The English
Concert (Dir. Trevor Pinnock), with whom he has toured and recorded extensively,
and frequently appears as a soloist.
Walter Reiter has played many solo recitals in France, Israel, England and
Canada, recorded by Radio France and Israel Radio. He has recorded the
Recreations of Leclair for Addes, France, and sonatas by Mondonville for Meridian. In 1999 he founded Cordaria, primarily to perform and record the
violin repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Cordaria records for Signum Records, and their CDs to date are of Vivaldi Violin Sonatas Op 2,
the Biber Mystery Sonatas, and "Un alma innamorata", a collection of
cantatas for voice, violin obbligato and continuo, with the soprano Linda
Perillo.
Walter Reiter teaches regularly in Israel and the UK, and has given masterclasses in France, Rome, Spain and Canada. He is also active as a
conducter, and has conducted the Kashtaniot Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv,
the Orchestra of the University of Alberta, Canada, the Seville Baroque Orchestra, and the Varazdin Festival Orchestra in Croatia. He is also
Musical Director of the Linden Baroque Orchestra and Choir in London, and has recorded a first CD with them, on the Meridian Label, of music by
Fasch.
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