The World Youth Orchestra at the Interlochen Arts Camp opens their season with Rodríguez’s Luminis

The Interlochen Arts Camp announced the guest conductors and repertoire highlights of this summer’s season which will open with Rodríguez’s Luminis. The orchestra will be led by the fast-rising German conductor Christian Reif. The opening concert of the festival will include Rodríguez’s Luminis and Copland’s Appalachian Spring.

Located in beautiful northwest Michigan, Interlochen Arts Camp offers summer programs for grades 3-12. Each summer, we welcome over 2,500 students from all over the world to study one of our seven arts areas: creative writing, dance, interdisciplinary arts, film and new media, music, theatre, and visual arts. The summer arts camp provides an opportunity to learn, create and perform alongside leading artists and instructors.

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World Youth Orchestra

The World Youth Symphony Orchestra is an outstanding orchestral experiences for advanced high school students. The faculty includes preeminent instructors who have extensive experience with major symphony orchestras. Repertoire is chosen from traditional and contemporary masterpieces, as well as other influential genres. The orchestras regularly feature some of the greatest artists in the world. Recent guest soloists include Yo-Yo Ma, Jennifer Koh, Awadagin Pratt, Joshua Bell, and many more.

Christian Reif

German conductor Christian Reif has quickly established a reputation for his natural musicality, technical command and leadership as an engaging communicator and outstanding orchestra builder. San Francisco Chronicle has written: “Reif is a remarkable talent... a conductor of considerable stature, and everything felt like the work of a significant musical artist.”

Since the 2019/20 season, Christian Reif has conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony, Aalborg Symphony, Fundación Excelentia in Madrid, North Carolina Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique and Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguese in Lisbon. Most recently, he conducted the Stavanger Symphony in a program of Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet and Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 paired with Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soprano Julia Bullock, and he makes his debut in March 2021 with the Orchestre National d’île de France in a streamed performance of Stravinsky’s Apollon Musagète.