Guest Conductor

Benjamin Reiners

Benjamin Reiners is Principal Guest Conductor of the Collegium Musicum Basel. From the 2025/2026 season, he holds the position of General Music Director for the theaters in Chemnitz and Chief Conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic.

In addition, his work as a guest conductor has taken him to prominent opera houses, concert halls, and major symphony orchestras, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Oper Graz, the state theaters of Nuremberg and Darmstadt, the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, Staatskapelle Weimar, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, and the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Following an initial engagement at the Gärtnerplatztheater, he served as First Kapellmeister at the Hanover State Opera and Deputy General Music Director at the National Theatre Mannheim. From 2019 to 2024, he held the position of General Music Director for the state capital, Kiel.