Steven Reineke is in his second decade as music director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. He also serves as principal pops conductor of the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and principal pops conductor of Houston Symphony and Toronto Symphony. He is a frequent guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and his extensive conducting appearances include concerts throughout the country. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2011.

Mr. Reineke has collaborated with many leading artists in hip-hop, R&B, Broadway, television, and rock, including Maxwell, Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Cynthia Erivo, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton, and Ben Folds. In 2017 NPR’s All Things Considered featured Mr. Reineke leading the National Symphony in live music excerpts between news segments—a first in the show’s 45-year history. In 2018 he led the National Symphony with hip-hop legend Nas in a concert for PBS’s Great Performances.

As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Casey at the Bat are widely performed. His Sun Valley Festival Fanfare was chosen to commemorate the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s pavilion, and his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were debuted by Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands worldwide.

(11/2022)

Maxwell has artfully managed to transfix music lovers for more than two decades, releasing five studio albums, all in his own time and all duly anointed as classics. The soul singer redefined soul music in April 1996, when he released his critically acclaimed debut on Columbia, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite. It earned Grammy nominations, double platinum status, and RIAA gold for the single “Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder).” The platinum albums Embrya (1998) and Now (2001) followed. After eight years, 2009’s BLACKsummers’night debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won two Grammy Awards, including Best R&B Album. To date, Maxwell has achieved four platinum album certifications from the RIAA.

His last album blackSUMMERS’night, the second installment of his musical trilogy, earned Maxwell his third Grammy (Best R&B Song for “Lake By The Ocean”), an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Male Artist), and a Soul Train Award (Best R&B/Soul Male Artist). He was also recently honored with the Legend Award at the 2021 Soul Train Awards, and performed “The Lady in My Life” for a celebrated Michael Jackson tribute at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. His critically acclaimed The Night Tour also made Pollstar’s 2022 list of “Top 20 Global Concert Tours.” Maxwell’s upcoming blacksummers’NIGHT will cap off a journey he first embarked upon over a decade ago as one of the most-anticipated R&B events of 2023.