Reuben M. Reynolds

Reuben M. Reynolds III has been the music director of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus since 1997. After earning undergraduate degrees in both economics and music, he received his masters of music degree from Louisiana State University where he was teaching assistant to Metropolitan Opera soprano Martina Arroyo. He was also on the conducting staff of the Baton Rouge Lyric Opera. In Kansas City, Reynolds served as music director of the Heartland Men’s Chorus from 1989 to 1998 and was also conductor of the Philharmonia of Kansas City and the Kansas City Civic Opera Theatre. In the summer of 1994, he made his European debut conducting the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Beethoven Chamber Orchestra of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He returned to the Czech Republic to conduct the West Bohemia Symphony Orchestra in 1995. He spent the summer of 1998 in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducting the Hermitage Camerata in the Catherine the Great Theatre. Reynolds has commissioned over 20 major pieces and hundreds of arrangements in his career.