Conductor Andrey Rein was born in 1970 in Moscow. He graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music as a guitar major, from the A. G. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music as a musicologist, and from the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and its postgraduate school in Opera and Symphonic Conducting (class of People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky).
He maintains an active concert career. As a regular guest conductor he collaborates with the Yaroslavl and Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestras, the A. G. Schnittke Saratov Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra, the S. S. Prokofiev Donetsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra (with which he has toured in Norway), the Chuvash Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra «Musica Viva», the N. P. Osipov National Academic Folk Orchestra of Russia, and other ensembles.
He has led tours in Spain with the Russian‑Spanish Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 Andrey Rein served as assistant conductor for the production of Tchaikovsky’s «The Enchanter» («The Sorceress») on the main stage of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (conductor of the production: People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Lazarev).
From 2014 to 2018 he was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Moscow Academic Satire Theatre, and since 2017 he has been Principal Conductor of the Moscow Opera House.
Alongside his concert work Andrey S. Rein is deeply engaged in teaching. For more than twenty years he taught at the A. G. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music. Since 2011 he has taught in the Opera and Symphonic Conducting Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where he leads his own conducting class and gives original lecture courses, including «History of the Art of Conducting». He is the author of numerous syllabi in the department’s core disciplines.
From 2012 to 2017 he conducted the Academy’s Chamber Orchestra, with which he prepared more than twenty concert programmes, including the opening concerts of the International Contemporary Music Festival «Moscow Autumn» in 2015 and 2016. In May 2013 the Gnesin Academy Chamber Orchestra under Andrey Rein performed at the «Music Academies of Europe» International Festival in Warsaw, winning First Prize and the Audience Award.
As part of the Gnesin Academy’s international cooperation, in 2016 and 2017 Andrey Rein gave orchestral conducting masterclasses at the National University of Music of Peru in Lima.
His students have repeatedly become laureates of Russian and international competitions. For example, his student Nikolai Tsinman won First Prize and the special «Orchestra’s Choice» award at the 3rd N. Tlendiyev International Conducting Competition in Astana in 2016.
Andrey Rein’s distinctions include the First‑Degree Gennady Rozhdestvensky Prize, an Honorary Diploma from the Murmansk Region Committee for Culture and Arts «For his significant personal contribution to the preservation and development of the culture of the Murmansk Region and for his high professional mastery», and the national opera award «Onegin».
