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Joe Reyna 2018 Named Finalist in 2024 The American Prize in Conducting Competition
Denver Philharmonic Orchestra assistant conductor Joe Reyna 2018 has been named a finalist in The American Prize in Conducting for 2024.
The American Prize national competitions is the United States' most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. Artists from all over the United States compete annually for the coveted awards, representing hundreds of communities and arts organizations across all fifty states. Aside from conducting, The American Prize is awarded in several categories - American music, arts administration, composition, instrumental soloist, piano, voice, wind ensemble, chamber ensemble, chorus, theater, stage direction and orchestra.
As assistant conductor of the Denver Philharmonic, Joe is also the concurrent assistant conductor and orchestral manager of the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater of the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.
Joe studied conducting under the tutelage of internationally renowned composer-conductor Prof. Josefino ‘Chino’ Toledo and Prof. Rodney Ambat at the University of the Philippines College of Music. He was the first to be accepted into the rigorous Orchestral Conducting undergraduate program in the university in over two decades. Furthermore, he was a beneficiary of the UP-Honorific Award for Student Performing Arts Group scholarship, the UP ROTC Scholarship Award, and the Performing Arts Scholarship Program Award.
In 2019, he worked with the Yamanashi Symphony Orchestra in Japan as an apprentice of Maestra Yuri Nitta, the current president of the Sibelius Society of Japan. Reyna, a recipient of the Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship (JASSO), also studied interdisciplinary music studies at the Yamanashi Gakuin University – International College of Liberal Arts with Dr. Mike Blow.
Prior to his career as a conductor, Joe studied with the noted Filipino Bassoonist Noel Singcuenco. While studying, he traveled and performed around the country as a Bassoonist with major orchestras based in Manila. These include participating as a distinguished performer during the Asian Composers’ League Festival (ACL) and the Southeast Asian Directors of Music Festival (SEADOM) in 2015, and other various concerts with the Manila Symphony Orchestra, Grupo 20/21 Modular Ensemble, UP Symphony Orchestra, and the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra– wherein he was the youngest member of the group.
